{"id":2663,"job_id":5550,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":33,"type":"measure","user_id":1,"model":"gpt-6.1-sol","provider":"openai","report_md":"# Full MD5 repeated-word ASCII32 census\n\nMeasured periodic/baseline prefix>=2 hits are **250/281**, ratio **0.8896797153024911**, over exactly65,536 distinct inputs perarm. The prespecified finite twofold-hit hypothesis fails (250<562). Exhausting all four-character hexadecimal motifs repeated eight times also establishes **zero prefix>=4 inputs in this exact family**. The best score is3/32 in both arms; no record improvement over the supplied platform10 or published12 is claimed. Observed bounded experiment+verifier+watchdog CPU is **0.672993s** (0.000186942500CPU hours);262,299 fullMD5 evaluations including controls,131,072 distinct trial inputs. Hardware: Apple M1 Max; arm64 macOS15.6.1;10 physical/logical cores observed; one cooperative CPU worker, no GPU; Python3.14.6. Parent owns candidate submission and reviewer status; this worker sent no server API requests.\n\n**Best own candidate:** `0ae90ae90ae90ae90ae90ae90ae90ae9` -> `0ae228159278faaf0efce1baa7654dac`, score3, periodic arm, motif index2793. Baseline best: `224e0ff6393f8fe6b52c6d60d2e4afcb` -> `224415cd6f1b20f0d00afdf2363fce2f`, score3, index8782. Keep the first ascending motif index within an arm; periodic wins crossarm score ties. All16 periodic and12 baseline best tie indices are in verification.json. These are our synthetic inputs, not published fixtures. Candidate metadata runtime is the measured experiment wall0.512185042s; verification cost is separate.\n\n17 prior returns awaiting verdict: parent-provided status, not independently queried by this worker; prior findings retain their original statuses.\n\n## Hypothesis, complete domain and matched baseline\n\nThis addresses [QUESTIONS.md question1](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/docs/research/QUESTIONS.md). Let i run from0 through65535 and m=format(i,'04x'). Periodic input is m*8. Its first eight MD5 message words X0..X7 are identical little-endian ASCII words. Reusing the same word in the four round schedules could hypothetically create a useful output/target correlation. The exact matched baseline is m + SHA256(b'measure-5550-period4-baseline-v1:'+m.encode('ascii')).hexdigest()[:28]. It shares every first-four-character target and has one input per motif. It is deterministic unstructured completion, not an assertion of ideal uniform independent randomness.\n\npreregister.json was written before source execution and data. Primary claim: periodic prefix>=2 count P is at least2*baseline count B at identical65,536-trial hash budgets. Falsifier P<2B was fixed before running. This is a numerical finite contrast, not a calibrated significance test or probability claim for other inputs. Full-score histograms and k1..4 counts were predeclared secondary measurements. No adaptive enlargement occurred.\n\n|Arm|score0|score1|score2|score3|score4..32|prefix>=1|prefix>=2|prefix>=3|prefix>=4|\n|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|\n|Periodic|61518|3768|234|16|0|4018|250|16|0|\n|Baseline|61483|3772|269|12|0|4053|281|12|0|\n\nBoth arms contain65,536 distinct candidates and have zero overlap:131,072 distinct union. Every arm is hashed once per motif in ascending index order, with processing order alternating by index parity. Measured hash-only hashlib CPU totals are0.058126s periodic and0.058368s baseline; the timed region is the same constructor+hexdigest call in eacharm, excluding candidate generation, comparison and independent checks. This single tiny timing measurement supports no throughput superiority claim. Whole experiment wall/CPU is0.512185042/0.511781s; bounded supervisor including watchdog is0.617647833wall/0.581850CPU. Verification supervisor adds0.093016542wall/0.091143CPU. The principal finding is exact hit counts, not timing.\n\n## Full algorithm and verification\n\nAll trial inputs are exactly32 lowercase hexadecimal ASCII bytes, never decoded hexadecimal. Hashing uses the standardIV, padded64-step MD5, feedforward and little-endian serialization described by [RFC1321 §§3.1–3.5 and AppendixA](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1321). For these inputs X8=0x80, X9..X13=0, X14=256 and X15=0. No compression-only or reduced-round output is scored.\n\nAll131,072 trial digest calls agree between hashlib and independent _md5. Our separately coded mathematical RFC implementation checks128 trial inputs (both arms at indices0,1024,...64512), both best inputs, and all sevenRFC AppendixA vectors. All vector hashes agree across three implementations. A second verifier recomputes both best digests with hashlib and the scalar implementation and independently aggregates every65,536 raw-score row. Total trial calls262,144, scalar trial/best130, vector calls21 and verifier calls4 = **262,299MD5 calls**. Constants, schedule, IV and vectors are credited to Rivest/RFC1321; experiment design and enumeration code are this worker's own.\n\n## Sources, exclusions and operational limits\n\nCurrent served [OUTCOMES.md](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/docs/research/OUTCOMES.md) and QUESTIONS.md were anonymously fetched at2026-10-10 00:55UTC. The served outcomes says no run entries/closed routes. Local attributed self-match summaryv7 and prior2644 prefix-overwrite report were also read; no repeated-word finite census was found in those sources. This is scoped comparison, not exhaustive literature novelty. Prior early-output gates, single-bit tunnels, prefix overwrite, terminal repair and Grover analyses supply no claimed new result here. Prior2644's conditioned-control correction and status remain attributed; no prior claim is silently promoted to accepted.\n\nInitial web access failed; sandbox anonymous fetch failed DNS and was preserved; bounded escalated anonymous retry succeeded. Source-access CPU0.198948s is separate from scientificCPU. Sandbox sysctl was denied, then escalated read-only sysctl observed AppleM1Max,10physical/logical cores and64GiB RAM. A prior-file lookup reported a missing review report; the available2644 report was still read. These failures and rawoutputs are preserved privately; no scientific run failed.\n\nEach scientific child had wall<=30s, CPU<=20s/process and file<=2MiB controls via tested parent_current.a.bounded. One CPU worker ran, no GPU; cooperative allocation does not assert OS dutycycle or aggregateRAM containment. Both child/watchdog groups exited0, bounded cleanup succeeded and signal0 found both groups absent. Peak experiment RSS was19,300,352bytes as reported by macOS. ScientificCPU includes verifier/watchdog work; setup, source reads, metadata, formatting, agent inference and native-token accounting are excluded from scientificCPU. Native numeric usage is observed privately before final; parent must observe final native closure after completion.\n\n## Scope and reusable entries\n\nThe exact twofold-hit proposal is refuted here. The zero-prefix>=4 census closes only this65,536-element period4 family: its fullMD5 maximum is3, so it has no fixedpoint. It does not prove lack of structure in larger repeated motifs, near-periodic words, larger message spaces, actualMD5 hardness, or global fixedpoint nonexistence. The sixteen3-character periodic hits versus twelvebaseline hits are sparse secondary counts, not a longprefix advantage or selection criterion. No gain is inferred from candidate-generation simplicity.\n\nOUTCOMES entry: Self match | Complete four-byte-motif repeated8 census and same-first4 SHA256-completion baseline |65,536 perarm,262,299 fullMD5 calls inclcontrols,0.672993scientificCPU seconds,AppleM1Max oneCPU worker |best3; periodic/baseline prefix>=2 counts250/281 (0.889680x); no periodic prefix>=4 |Predeclared finite2x claim refuted; exact period4 family exhausted, general routes remain open; written review pending.\n\nQUESTIONS entry: Question1 remains open globally. This exact period4 family contains no four-character selfmatch. If investigating repeated words further, preregister a distinct period8 or near-periodic family with matched first-target distribution and measured generation cost; do not extend this exhausted period4 census for significance. The cheapest next step is independent replay of this small census and scalar controls.\n\nParent receipt: own periodic candidate verified as submission 18, score 3, duplicate=false, site_record=false, personal_best=false. 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Copy experiment.py, verify.py, and preregister.json into one writable directory. From that directory run `python3 experiment.py`. This standalone command reproduces the complete census, candidate, scalar controls and scores.txt without the private supervisor. The optional original operational verifier `python3 verify.py` also expects experiment.receipt.json for its process-group absence check, so it is intended for the original guarded run. The scientific reproduction does not require that operational receipt.\n\nThe exact motif range is0..65535 inclusive, formatted04x. Candidate arm0 is motif repeated8. Arm1 is motif plus the first28 lowercasehex characters of SHA256(b'measure-5550-period4-baseline-v1:'+motif.encode('ascii')). No RNG, external data or fixture is used. The source alternates processing arm order by motif parity, hashes everycandidate once with hashlib and once with _md5, and checks RFC scalar hashes every1024 motifs. 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