{"id":4956,"job_id":9878,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Job 9878: H48, bit-31 reach of the -8 length-word trail (tiny inputs, padding lens)\n## Question\nOn the (8,9) s = 15/16 route the 9-byte side is inverted through the zero padding window from a -8 difference in the length word.\nHow often does that backward trail reach bit 31 per level, and does this explain s636's bit-24 cluster numbers (act-free share\n2^-4.94, plateau Pr[Q0' kept | MSB pattern] 0.14..0.17, per-bit rates)?\n## Method\nPre-registered P1..P4 (Lemma U derived first), h48.c with self-tests, one batch (2^30 random bases; 2^30 Q1 ^ 2^24 pairs; 35\nrelatives x 2^26), then cl48.c (closure table by flip cell and A's bit-31 values, 2^29 bases).\n## Results\n- The trail reaches bit 31 only at levels 3..6 (0.432, 0.335, 0.322, 0.023); the column model is exact per level; levels 6..11 are\n  quiet with probability 0.976 (model 0.976).\n- P1 held: Lemma U, 0 exceptions over 73699 pairs. P3 b1, b2 held (99.4% of coincidences head quiet; -0.1% model error).\n- Proof: the pattern forces Q3[31] = Q4[31] = 0, the cause of P2's 0.80x conditional factor (P2 failed; the model is 11% low).\n- Closure law (exact): quiet route 0.339 x 0.317 + open route 0.127 x 0.500 = 0.1705, measured 0.1705; all other cells exactly 0.\n- P4 failed: footprint predictor Spearman 0.43; P3 b3 failed: the plateau drifts 0.144 -> 0.172.\n## Verdict\nThe cluster picture is complete and exact; no saving. 0 bits; cost table unchanged (s = 2 produced; s = 15/16 about 2^50.2;\ns = 17..62 2^64; full 2^64.5).\n## Next\nH49: closed forms of the quiet-route factor 0.317 and the plateau drift; afterwards only ideas with a counted bound >= 9 bits.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.25,"hashes":{"h48.c":"2b3c10d7a2164d0ac28002bf0f836e4957b568245df968b79ef63e7bb62ddfd9","cl48.c":"22ace94b6154bfa889a55bfc9338ff47862729f1cda6a4c2eb79e64b9eb604ff","cl48.txt":"8b6dcb80b5762b597146c254af4c6cdb891d7a4c60e653b621da12e740e72fdc","R_all.txt":"262aebb9a10c13537fac7af5daee08ba6657159dc564e2a458ca436b7a098b22","ana48.txt":"c378c735a170b78b92e096c3b719818362d261aa900d4f998ff05e00db6cb108","recipe.md":"de21555d2dffd050c438503a609717b39d2a51cf0868864ad06eefc119e770c0","results.md":"29aee384ebb1d484c76234690a13f607c30c67cae914fd6338d8d34580b045b8"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-20T05:42:10.790Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[4952,4946,4938],"messages":[7922]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":84,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":80076},"output":80076,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":4726993,"cache_write":158608,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe (s637, H48; job 9878)\nUploaded sources: job9878-h48.c, job9878-cl48.c, job9878-ana48.py, job9878-b1.sh, job9878-rl.sh. Drop the job9878- prefix from every file name. Put\nthe C sources, the analysis script and the batch script into a directory src/ and the run-limited wrapper (from job9878-rl.sh) into its\nparent directory: the batch script calls the wrapper one level up. The wrapper runs the folder tool's run-limited; replace it by a\nplain exec of the command if that tool is not available.\nBuild (in src/): cc -O3 -march=native -o h48 on the source from job9878-h48.c with -lm; cc -O2 -o cl48 on the source from job9878-cl48.c\nwith -lm.\nChecks: h48 self-tests first (C('12345678') via (Q1, Q2) = 0301ce89bf00fb, the s635 check value; difference recursion == direct\ninversion on 2^16 random A; column model vs direct counting); it refuses to run otherwise.\nRun: the batch script from job9878-b1.sh in src/ (47 runs, 8 in parallel, about 3 min on an Apple M1; seeds 0x6500 + run index in\nscript order) -> U_*.out and R_KIND_B_S.out; then ./cl48 with stdout to cl48.txt (fixed seed, 2^29 bases, about 25 s).\nAnalysis: python3 on the script from job9878-ana48.py in src/ (reads U_*.out and R_*.out), stdout as in job9878-ana48.txt.\nRaw data as uploaded: job9878-R_all.txt (result lines of all 47 runs, receipts removed), job9878-ana48.txt, job9878-cl48.txt.\nNotes: job9878-prereg.md (written before the batch), job9878-results.md.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":"high","also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":{"share":0,"omitted":0,"outputs":0},"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":null,"file_notes":null,"research":null,"research_route_id":null,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_62911f8692f18f2c01e7d934","run_id":"run_538216920df654c4e4061725","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":{"schema":"research-evidence-v1","scopes":[{"key":"md5-tiny-s15-length-trail-bit31-reach","kind":"finite","domain_md":"MD5 (RFC 1321) reduced to its first 15/16 steps; A = 8-byte input (m0, m1 free, m2 = 0x80, m3..m13 = 0, m14 = 64), B = 9-byte input with the same state after step 14 (m14' = 72), found by inverting B from A's state down to the state after step 2. Condition C1: Q0' = IV_b. A is written by its free state words (Q1, Q2), one-to-one with (m0, m1); D_k = Q'_k - Q_k is the backward length-word trail (-8 at level 11). Relative: Q1 xor 2^24 with the forward MSB pattern through Q13 (pattern13).","statement_md":"On the (8,9) s = 15/16 inversion route the backward -8 length-word trail flips bit 31 of the 9-byte side's state words only at levels 3..6 (rates 0.432, 0.335, 0.322, 0.023; levels 7..11 <= 5.5e-4), matching the per-level column model exactly; the forward MSB pattern of Q1 xor 2^24 forces Q3[31] = Q4[31] = 0 (proof). Lemma U (proof, 0 exceptions over 73699 pairs): an MSB-class Q0'-coincidence of a pattern13 pair needs no bit-31 flip at levels 6..11. Closure law (exact on 2^29 bases): Q0' is kept only on the quiet route (no flip at levels 3..5; rate 0.317) or the open route (flip at level 5 and Q5[31] = 1 xor flip at level 4; rate 0.500), which gives the cluster plateau 0.1705 = measured 0.1705.","assumptions_md":"h48.c computes D by the difference recursion (self-tests: the s635 check value C('12345678'), agreement with the direct inversion on 2^16 random A, column model vs direct counting). 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Condition C1: Q0' = IV_b. A is written by its free state words (Q1, Q2), one-to-one with (m0, m1); D_k = Q'_k - Q_k is the backward length-word trail (-8 at level 11). Relative: Q1 xor 2^24 with the forward MSB pattern through Q13 (pattern13).","statement_md":"A per-bit read-mask model (relative differences inside the carry spans and IF-selected columns the length trail reads, one half per bit) does not rank the Q0'-coincidence rates of the 36 Q1 relatives (Spearman 0.43, pre-registered >= 0.95); the column-model product for the act-free share is 11..14% low and the pattern conditions change it by 0.80x. Cluster bookkeeping only: 0 bits, cost table unchanged.","assumptions_md":"h48.c computes D by the difference recursion (self-tests: the s635 check value C('12345678'), agreement with the direct inversion on 2^16 random A, column model vs direct counting). 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Condition C1: Q0' = IV_b. A is written by its free state words (Q1, Q2), one-to-one with (m0, m1); D_k = Q'_k - Q_k is the backward length-word trail (-8 at level 11). Relative: Q1 xor 2^24 with the forward MSB pattern through Q13 (pattern13).","statement_md":"On the (8,9) s = 15/16 inversion route the backward -8 length-word trail flips bit 31 of the 9-byte side's state words only at levels 3..6 (rates 0.432, 0.335, 0.322, 0.023; levels 7..11 <= 5.5e-4), matching the per-level column model exactly; the forward MSB pattern of Q1 xor 2^24 forces Q3[31] = Q4[31] = 0 (proof). Lemma U (proof, 0 exceptions over 73699 pairs): an MSB-class Q0'-coincidence of a pattern13 pair needs no bit-31 flip at levels 6..11. Closure law (exact on 2^29 bases): Q0' is kept only on the quiet route (no flip at levels 3..5; rate 0.317) or the open route (flip at level 5 and Q5[31] = 1 xor flip at level 4; rate 0.500), which gives the cluster plateau 0.1705 = measured 0.1705.","assumptions_md":"h48.c computes D by the difference recursion (self-tests: the s635 check value C('12345678'), agreement with the direct inversion on 2^16 random A, column model vs direct counting). 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The trail touches bit 31 only at levels 3..6; Lemma U (0 exceptions over 73699 pairs) and an exact closure law explain the bit-24 cluster plateau (0.1705 predicted = measured). 0 bits, cost table unchanged. Uploading and completing with a summary transcript.","created_at":"2026-10-20T05:41:21.054Z","url":"/projects/md5/chat/messages/7922"}]}