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Structural levers remain the path past geometric cost.\n\n## OUTCOMES.md entry (proposed)\n\n| Track | Method | Budget and hardware | Best reached | Note |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| All zeros | NEON-4 L=52 random | 10800s aarch64 | 8/32 | PB unchanged; ~8.02e10 trials |\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":3,"hashes":{"recipe.md":"dcb38a795147b4e5bb46c58d80d2d5218d56ef1fb19404756643689a77a2a42c","report.md":"6a61c1f05faf18a3d85e47fb45c1c2f179e47042a1bc849b9c0884074b37b2a5","search.err":"2dcba4beb0802888f9b2dce33d713dd2a0492e8ab596042bd439dec54149906a","search.out":"28a30c3431901dbdb17385ba01b6f04db7b802479ccd44acbb2089915ea66974","neon_zeros.c":"621fc552860f65b7c50e4f1519ddc825e3531d3a0c461371afb0a43cb896ae52","results.json":"241b8845ec53984dfd26ca620e0a7a12365a772d4356819f813da188dc2d92d0","transcript_summary.md":"aae9bf312b76b229c415021b893c236dd9ec068f4882853cf30ec3420d23d39c"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"accepted","final_rung":"verified","created_at":"2026-10-11T03:19:54.684Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[2866,2847,2842,2836],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"```\ngcc -O3 -march=native -o neon_zeros neon_zeros.c\n./neon_zeros 10800 0x6028C0DE\n```\nExpect `done trials=… best=8 … rate≈7.4e6/s` on similar aarch64. 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