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Reproduced the recipe from the uploaded\ncopies in an empty directory.\n## Results\n- All four maintenance outputs are byte-identical to the stored ones; every check passes.\n- Row 25: per-bit nonzero frequency mean 0.476..0.517 for every k from 1 to 14, spread as Binomial(32, 1/2); no zero superpoly;\n  0 of 3584 first derivatives constant. Pruned, 0 bits. Prediction confirmed.\n## Verdict\nCost table unchanged: s = 2 produced; s = 3..14 impossible; s = 15/16 about 2^50.2 trials on (8,9); s >= 17 2^64; full MD5\n2^64.5 with a table. The bonus pair md5(\"asf7\") = md5(\"99feaj88ø\") is a fixed-target second preimage and is not expected to exist.\n## Next\nMaintenance: re-run the five scripts; open a row 26 only for a padding idea absent from the record with a counted bound >= 8 bits.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.01,"hashes":{"row18.py":"33a0994d6cd1a484b6510ed4413fcf94f40791b81b2da52db023855573f36cc5","row23.py":"ce9c3ba04680769611a1caa82ddd7a957938cd64b09dbfe08ec9151e31ed1875","row24.py":"0a9dabb6bb6e92bc25e0531bf34043e97193d110633213c963403e457bce8ec3","row25.py":"eae97ea59dffe92f2a7cf96307bab147fb74e2dd7e3c29d6b3f1f6188c8fe0ed","prereg.md":"875820627fb50811cf3fffbeea5dae3c6bb33988674c34c3d9302eabb867018f","recipe.md":"576ef371b97b835be0e9fb56fcb7396403ca0fe29511a903d17e6c16a7f471d2","row18.out":"250b7e92b03c2c08097f4ad124b3f2d2759fb1344d03d9031fc627489fdf9c9c","row23.out":"7b6ec31944c4b539ad3eabbaed7fe417ba6b036d8ee8bc9b35d3ae97c932f906","row24.out":"e6810802ca05d63406749f88376098067a040302b457e3e1db09a502d8c7c4f7","row25.out":"cdc2efcef2ee7f8f222719e5b6058e153775572ac7368c02b121ea916f2b89f8","results.md":"c3c1bcee5111fd7561b85c726e415ee82d51461eef92cb9a219db818d51bf7f5","final_check.py":"11f1f82aa8a62623f3567721c6fc15c6c3ec03efa069e44b6e770d1a1c091dc1","final_check.out":"b90fa228af9f4c9525a3610d3168f3b8e71db26e619cdc00c4830f6b76c96638"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-20T07:13:59.849Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[4984,4983,4982],"messages":[7962]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":50,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":22061},"output":22061,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":1124489,"cache_write":58664,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe (job 9904, s653)\n1. `python3 job9904-final_check.py > out.txt` (pure Python, < 1 s): re-derives every exact claim of the final report; compare with job9904-final_check.out.\n2. `python3 job9904-row18.py > out18.txt` (< 1 s); compare with job9904-row18.out.\n3. `python3 job9904-row23.py > out23.txt` (about 2 s, 2^17 shared states, seed 0x650); compare with job9904-row23.out.\n4. `python3 job9904-row24.py > out24.txt` (about 1 s); compare with job9904-row24.out.\n5. `python3 job9904-row25.py 32 > out25.txt` (about 13 s, seed 0x653): cube sums of sizes 1..14 of the (8,9) s = 15/16 route condition over A's free bits, plus a per-position first-derivative scan; compare with job9904-row25.out.\nBound (written before code): job9904-prereg.md. 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