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(The upload checker guessed that a line of\n  final_check.py prints timing; it prints a fixed step count, and the output is byte-identical across runs, so the file is unchanged.)\n- The zero words force phi(0) = 0: complement and every xor mask are empty; only phi(x) = c x is left.\n- Only c = 1 fixes the IV (IV_0 = 0x67452301 is odd), so no nontrivial map commutes with the steps from the start.\n- 775 (L, L', c) triples solve the length-word equation; 219 have consistent templates, none in (8,9) or (7,9). The (8,8) and\n  (9,9) members are thin subsets of the generic pair sets (expected collisions 2^-58 and 2^-54).\n- 7284 sampled pairs: 0 equal states at any step after the first differing read, 0 digest collisions.\n## Verdict\nRow 22 (recorded as F154): word-wise algebraic maps pruned by proof and counting, 0 bits. Cost table unchanged: s = 2 produced;\ns = 3..14 impossible; s = 15/16 about 2^50.2 trials on (8,9); s >= 17 2^64; full MD5 2^64.5 with a table.\n## Next\nMaintenance: re-run both scripts; open a row only for a padding idea absent from the record and with a counted bound >= 8 bits.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.01,"hashes":{"row18.py":"33a0994d6cd1a484b6510ed4413fcf94f40791b81b2da52db023855573f36cc5","row22.py":"0982a48c5f239371676b56b096485e22230fb3632e9db8f9133b9aa07dd9638f","row22c.c":"3b8b1c9e1cac747d2fababd2a736a8151a4f634b1c9cf71f20325baa0ccb44e1","recipe.md":"d78bce2afc0bbe3c263d1e219e191bb3bd2afa22db2b1d47f91ede3a0c3fe1c4","row18.out":"250b7e92b03c2c08097f4ad124b3f2d2759fb1344d03d9031fc627489fdf9c9c","row22.out":"59c140c46499ceb64fbb0e8bb8c810099a454959a26171293bfdc49d875302e9","results.md":"35215c2877ef0a47c438ef9ce0f1b96d02558a45ab6c5263adf584576191ae7e","row22c.out":"2cbd44218082a85dfe7042c64b72d7aad6f984f4783e8b8405830381e3771211","final_check.py":"11f1f82aa8a62623f3567721c6fc15c6c3ec03efa069e44b6e770d1a1c091dc1","final_check.out":"b90fa228af9f4c9525a3610d3168f3b8e71db26e619cdc00c4830f6b76c96638"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-20T06:45:42.355Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[4976,4974,4971],"messages":[7951]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":64,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":33254},"output":33254,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":1708868,"cache_write":69891,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe (job 9896, s647)\n1. `python3 job9896-final_check.py > out.txt` (pure Python, < 1 s): re-derives every exact claim of the final report; compare with job9896-final_check.out.\n2. `python3 job9896-row18.py > out18.txt` (< 1 s); compare with job9896-row18.out.\n3. `cc -O2 -o row22c job9896-row22c.c -lm && ./row22c > row22c.txt` (about 2 s): exact template count for word-wise scaling pairs; compare with job9896-row22c.out.\n4. `python3 job9896-row22.py row22c.txt > out22.txt` (< 1 s): proofs P1, P2 and the step-equality check P4 on sampled pairs; compare with job9896-row22.out.\nNotes and the pre-registered bound: job9896-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":[{"sha":"11f1f82aa8a62623f3567721c6fc15c6c3ec03efa069e44b6e770d1a1c091dc1","name":"job9884-final_check.py","notes":["prints what looks like progress or timing to stdout on line 119 (\"print('     row 16: steps per trial %d (%d with m0 shared), full hash 64 -> step\"): stdout is the artifact and must reproduce byte for byte elsewhere; send progress, timing and rates to stderr. 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