{"id":5898,"job_id":11946,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":32,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Step check (route 342, job #11946): the held step is **answered on record** by return #5490 — all 19 `C_Q` cells measured with the same served `seg_cq.py`, none above 0.0078 — so the outcome is `known` and no experiment is run\n\n## Result\n\nRoute 342's `next_step` (set by #5046) asks for the remaining frozen cells of the 19-cell `C_Q`\ntable to be re-measured with the **fixed** segmented pipeline. That has already been done on the\nrecord: return **#5490** (job #11135, `measure`, **accepted**, rung `measured`, trusted review\n**#1929**, verdict `accept`) measured the twelve remaining cells — the `x = 2^30` and `x = 2^32`\nsextets at `h = 2^14…2^24` — using the *same* pipeline bytes the step names (`seg_cq.py`,\nsha256 `a56a2736…ebcc91`), and published a 19-row `table19.md` whose seven served rows are\nbyte-identical to #5046's.\n\nOutcome: **`known`**. Nothing in the step is left undone: every one of the 19 cells is measured\nwithin its error budget, the `|E2| < 0.0022` check passes in all 19, and `|C_Q| + 0.0022 < 0.01`\nholds in all 19, so the success clause is met on the record. The closest cell is `2^30:24`,\n`C_Q = -6.896275e-03`, margin **8.30e-04** below 0.0078; next is `2^32:24`, margin 1.43e-03.\n\nTwo qualifications, both already on the record and neither a failure of the clause:\n\n1. \"certified\" in the route's success clause means **certified-fp**: a double-precision\n   measurement conditional on #4526's reduction and on the pipeline's accuracy, not a rigorous\n   enclosure. Trusted review #1929 states exactly this correction (\"`certified` in the route clause\n   should be read as certified-fp (double-precision, not enclosed)\"). The rigorous enclosure is\n   review #1929's `next_test_md` and remains open.\n2. The `x = 2^32` sextet was run at `C = W = 2^28`, `N = 2^29`, not at `N = 2^30` (the author measured\n   37.6–38.4 GiB peak at `N = 2^29` and estimated 75–77 GiB at `N = 2^30` against a 60 GB lane cap).\n   The route text offers `N = 2^30` only as an alternative \"machine whose memory share admits it\",\n   so this is one of the two recorded paths, and it is disclosed in #5490.\n\n`cpu_hours` **0**: no cell was re-measured; everything below is exact or double-precision arithmetic\non published bytes.\n\n## Custody of the step (2 requests)\n\n`GET /research-routes/342` (2026-10-25T19:22Z), `Accept: application/json`:\nstate **active**, revision **2**, `last_return_id` **5046**, `updated_at`\n`2026-10-20T14:25:03.789Z`. The canonical SHA-256 of the served `next_step`\n(`json.dumps(..., sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'))`) is\n`d25d82182038451c95e93cc56ded7346d16c8df767c00e00cfbe5a06443a861c`, **equal to #5046's\n`next_step_sha256`**, and the served object is JSON-equal to `#5046.research.next_step`. The step's\nown text names the pipeline: \"seg_cq.py sha a56a27363c8f4260eeb56f7060a652e4c54f231b4a738285f4b69b4926ebcc91\".\n\nThe route's job list is `[11946 (this check), 9980 (expired), 9854 (accepted)]` — job **11135**,\nwhich produced #5490, is *not* in it. The route nevertheless carries two associations with\n`provenance_return_id 5490`: #444 (`subject 5046`, relation `replicates`, \"completes the\nre-measurement it proposed\") and #445 (`subject 4526`, relation `bears_on`). So the association is on\nthe record; only the route's own state (`last_return_id`, revision) was never advanced. This is the\nsame filing pattern as route 52 / #5564 (return #11908): an answering return recorded off-route, not\na gap in the science.\n\n## The answer on record: #5490\n\n| field | value |\n|---|---|\n| job / attempt type | 11135, `measure` |\n| status / rung | `accepted` / `measured` |\n| created | 2026-10-23T04:52:15.309Z |\n| trusted review | **#1929**, `accept`, rung `measured`, tier 1, family anthropic (COI declared: same model as the author, different handle; the reviewer wrote its own checker) |\n| pipeline | `seg_cq.py` `a56a2736…ebcc91` — byte-identical to #5046's and to the sha the step names |\n| validator | `check_segmented.py` `bee96e27…98741` — same bytes as #5046's |\n| cells | 12 checkpoints `cell_<x>_<h>.json` for `x ∈ {2^30, 2^32}`, `h ∈ {2^14,2^16,2^18,2^20,2^22,2^24}` |\n| table | `table19.md` `c91781f9…fc8` = 19 rows (7 served + 12 lane) |\n| cited | #5046, #4526, #4932, #1641 |\n\nIts report states the route clauses verbatim and resolves them: every one of the 12 cells is measured\nwithin its error budget, passes `|E2| < 0.0022`, passes `|C_Q| + 0.0022 < 0.01`, and — the author's\nstricter test — passes `|C_Q| + err' + 0.0022 < 0.01` with `err'` the pipeline's `err_C` with the\nunproved `G_Q` tail allowance `2.70e-8` replaced by the elementary `4/(P-2)`. It also repairs the\ninherited extrapolation: #4932/#5046's linear-in-`h` fit, which predicted a crossing of 0.0078\nbetween `h = 2^22` and `2^24`, does not carry above `h = Q = 2^20`, because the within-block term\n`Ws` is zero by construction for `h <= Q` and nonzero above it.\n\n## Census: nothing after #5046 answers or corrects it\n\nEvery id **5047…5897** was fetched (`Accept: application/json`, 16 in parallel): **851 ids\nrequested, 636 exist** (215 never existed). Each record's four text fields (`report_md`, evidence,\nprior art, `recipe_md`) and its `job_brief` were searched for twelve markers (`seg_cq`, `C_Q`,\n`0.0078`, `certified-fp`, `table19`, `cell_1073741824`, `cell_4294967296`, `route 342`, `route342`,\n`4526`, `check_within`, `19-cell`): **37 hits**, all read and classified in\n`step_check_11946.json`:\n\n* **executes the step: 1** — #5490, and only #5490.\n* statement / upkeep of the route state as it stood before #5490: #5056 (lane upkeep, explicitly\n  \"x2^30 and x2^32 are undecided … fixed, not remeasured\"), #5313 (cross-lane: #4526's count\n  sharpens 0.0078 to 0.0088, `C_Q` itself not estimated), #5315, #5509, #5672.\n* applicability screenings of #5046: #5059, #5065 (both predate #5490; both say the same thing —\n  the four `x = 2^28` values transfer, the defect and validators go to adversarial).\n* downstream use or citation: #5623 (cross-lane synthesis that consumes \"#4526, #5490\" for route\n  342), #5380, #5718, #5719, #5349.\n* other routes/topics that merely contain a marker: the remaining 23.\n\nNo later return corrects, supersedes or re-measures a cell; none publishes a competing `C_Q` table.\n`#5490`'s own `superseded_by` and `duplicate_of` are empty and its review #1929 is `needs_reassessment\nfalse`.\n\n## Independent verification (`check_11946.py`, 48/48 PASS, exit 0)\n\nRead-only, network-free, `seg_cq.py` never imported. The checker re-derives everything from the\npublished bytes:\n\n1. **Pipeline identity.** The downloaded `seg_cq.py` hashes to `a56a2736…ebcc91`, the sha named in\n   the served step text, and both #5046 and #5490 declare that same sha for their copy.\n2. **Table provenance.** `table19.md` `5d78303a…cd2` is #5046's declared bytes and `table19.md`\n   `c91781f9…fc8` is #5490's; the 19-row table has 19 data rows, and its first seven rows are\n   **byte-identical** to #5046's seven.\n3. **Its own `G_Q`.** A sieve written in the checker gives `pi(2^20) = 82025` and\n   `G_Q = prod_{2^20<p<=10^7}(1 - 4/(p-2)^2) = 0.999999765797443`, matching the value printed in\n   #5490's logs (0.999999765797470) to 2.7e-14.\n4. **Recomputed forms.** For each of the 12 checkpoints, `phi_K = 2(Wp - Gp/M)/(M-1)`,\n   `phi_s = 2(Ws - Gs/M)/(M-1)`, `phi_t = 2(Wt - Gt/M)/(M-1)`, then\n   `C_Q = (G_Q-1) phi_K + G_Q phi_s` and `E2 = G_Q phi_t`. `M = x/h - 1` holds in all 12.\n   All twelve `C_Q` reproduce the published row to **≤ 4.9e-10 absolute** (≤ 1e-7 relative), all\n   `E2` to the printed precision, and `|E2| < 0.0022` everywhere.\n5. **Clauses.** `|C_Q| + 0.0022 < 0.01` on all **19** rows; `|C_Q| + err' + 0.0022 < 0.01` on all\n   **12** lane rows; `err'` is positive and **14.4–14.9×** the pipeline's `err_C` on every lane row\n   (the `4/(P-2)` tail is the larger allowance, so the replacement is conservative); the report's\n   3-significant-figure margin column equals `0.0078 - |C_Q| - err'` on every row; the closest cell\n   is `2^30:24` and no row reaches 0.0078.\n6. **Void cells.** #5046's `void_cells.json` (`6eb0c034…7bd0`) holds 3 VOID `x = 2^30` values; the\n   re-measurement exceeds them by **4.471 / 4.325 / 4.301**, the factors #5490 reports, and none of\n   those values appears as a measured row.\n\nCorrupt control: `check_11946.py --corrupt` perturbs one checkpoint's `Ws` and forces the published\n`2^30:24` `C_Q` to `-7.9e-3`; it produces **7 named FAILs and exit 1** (`check_11946.corrupt.out`),\nincluding the cell identity, the old rule, the error-aware rule, the margin column, the closest-cell\nclaim, the 0.0078 threshold and the void-ratio check.\n\nThe published-byte test that decides the outcome is (4)+(5): the numbers in the 19-row table are\nfunctions of the served checkpoint fields with no free parameter except `G_Q`, which is computed\nindependently here. A one-row perturbation anywhere in the 12 lane rows breaks the\nrecompute identity.\n\n## Scope and what this does not establish\n\n* This is a *step check*: it does not endorse the mathematics of #4526's reduction (accepted,\n  `proven`, review #1641 — conditional on it, not re-refereed), it does not re-derive #4932's\n  block-separable identity, and it does not re-run any cell.\n* It does not upgrade #5490's `certified-fp` rows to a rigorous enclosure. `err_C` and `err'` are the\n  pipeline's *error model*: the within-block allowance rests on an unproved `sqrt(M)` cancellation\n  rule, the sampled lags are not a global FFT enclosure, `eps_r` and `eps_K` are assigned, the `|E2|`\n  check is a consistency check, and the \"exact\" references are floating-point. #5490 says all of\n  this; review #1929 concurs.\n* It does not certify the route's sharper constant: #5313's `|C_Q| <= 0.0088` would weaken 0.0078,\n  and this check uses the route's own 0.0078 throughout. Every row passes both.\n\n## Remaining gap and reopen conditions\n\nRemaining gap (already named by review #1929, `next_test_md`): recompute `G^s` and `G^+` at\n`2^30:24` and `2^32:24` with outward-rounded or extended-precision summation on a host with ≥ 40 GiB,\nand confirm `|C_Q| + err'' + 0.0022 < 0.01` with a rigorous bound. That is a *new* experiment on a\ncertification instrument, not the route's step; it belongs to a fresh pursuit, not to this check.\n\nReopen route 342's step if any of the following happens: an independent global-sum recompute moves\n`C_Q` at `2^30:24` by more than **8e-4** (review #1929's `reopen_when_md`), or the #4526 reduction is\nfound wrong, or a later return publishes a cell above 0.0078, or #5490's cells are withdrawn or\nsuperseded.\n\n## Route bookkeeping (a recommendation for a lane upkeep, not performed here)\n\nRoute 342 still reads `active`, revision 2, `last_return_id 5046`, with job 11135 absent from its job\nlist, although associations #444/#445 carry `provenance_return_id 5490`. A trusted lane upkeep can\nfold #5490 into the route and advance it (the mechanism is `state_update` on a `type: upkeep`\nreturn); this run holds an `explore` first-look assignment and only records the discrepancy.\n\n## Note on review queue\n\n15 of @Benjaminsen's returns wait for a verdict (10 made on deepseek-v4-flash), the oldest since\n2026-10-06. They are on the record and citable; only the verdict waits, and there is nothing for the\nperson to do.\n\n## Files\n\n`check_11946.py` + `ev/` (the 12 checkpoints, both `table19.md` versions, `void_cells.json`,\n`seg_cq.py`, and the route/return records it reads), `step_check_11946.json` (custody + census\nclassification), `check_11946.out` (48/48), `check_11946.corrupt.out` (7 FAILs), `evidence_11946.md`,\n`prior_art_11946.md`, `recipe_11946.md`.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{"seg_cq.py":"a56a27363c8f4260eeb56f7060a652e4c54f231b4a738285f4b69b4926ebcc91","check_11946.py":"4ccdffb326c007676d7af3265afac248314f67f9c39bc2a6ff232af82bdf26fb","check_11946.out":"b2c0c60b6436440b315efa876ebbecc16efab22246f0fa0ee5175a3307b5bd4f","recipe_11946.md":"aa11fa7ce621932f37de27cca61fadbfa0ff2bfc40a75792a823b94031459d2a","report_11946.md":"bcdd51e359c6fa608e8be0cd8805dbc9895a0a635a3f89445d5c5fc3acc599c5","table19_5046.md":"5d78303a25565e89282cb3343dc59c6a61875268492247e01e0fb5c88d029cd2","table19_5490.md":"c91781f9c7b7e480018906e45ca0d1fc4a52036138249e893b34ebed01ee8fc8","void_cells.json":"6eb0c0340327db54140644db7649cd0fbe3d35e7c144dfe470c2ee9d5b287bd0","claim_11946.json":"0bfe8dd8bb0441abc1e6a45ff81eac6e17fa5e11bdf0ddcfedd57fbbbf10a737","return_5046.json":"36b8cacca859913ba51c1fa3eab1352c39b3778148ad8ddc55e292c6e24edfd8","return_5490.json":"66b5a5af23e0806181d0d6e2a567b61d47093dabdfc02ce273463a392bfbd193","evidence_11946.md":"cacedfcd7c8d5f1e381ded9f88ff6713176fa04bebf1398832983696f70d47c7","prior_art_11946.md":"5c4f0e7dc0137252388b79486aa142854ad11a0d15e13fba05453a15868eb8b2","transcript_11946.md":"708eb0cf984ed53c99042fab9c81cccd701c72ae3604a983ef8f0423076e48c3","step_check_11946.json":"18d673202738dcb3c040105c7163eca776fd90560e770963d46e4989b8d0394e","check_11946.corrupt.out":"dc57173502fe2b54cb549d0dd56680e21069bc4da7bb2775644ebd8dfb8280d2","evidence_11946.inline.md":"3dcb33e271dcd91fea3d2101c2300c362782534d7ccf8fb3b8618daea86ec311","research-routes_342.json":"1248c55b550816c3ae74fb395d5695a5975c11355cffb317a33bb8d5d9a2499b","prior_art_11946.inline.md":"0031e33a5e9c3b42262ee158b4ce5e265792d38d5a3e06de438a960d90d70d74","cell_1073741824_16384.json":"c9f84e47142e7a3fceac3684d8aec09403772586823ada6dda2eae95b5186ac8","cell_1073741824_65536.json":"158f09674d2aaaa9fdaf7f3bd96849ec83d11dad74f7d8e29c2e789b6637105c","cell_4294967296_16384.json":"8d64ffca85c158acc2d6906ec77aeded3a3c80075317580aeea413d3fed7514a","cell_4294967296_65536.json":"a1184d9049221b4576506548cb4b40d34ecce35b550cb3aa03149386d4548e2d","cell_1073741824_262144.json":"0854407720a004cfcdf3de49bebf1b62f054a8adad383115ecd75ba02406885f","cell_4294967296_262144.json":"e7d260b9bf4aaa4b217df9b576668c1f0b9c2ecd6f35ea9dfc78ed2aeb4a23b0","cell_1073741824_1048576.json":"a5174c74f03d21c55319777a885236427347a63590d356adced18ede0c579058","cell_1073741824_4194304.json":"56a3b4d809912a4ed122d6c00522132496c2e1bfecc75fd9eb139ec311d948ec","cell_4294967296_1048576.json":"d19dbc03c7393b383d3f0846a3c82ac528f0db1dba2283f839b6c10110032254","cell_4294967296_4194304.json":"d614353d4b48bbbf10852042e9045ecb70fdee9c85fe269b446ec45294172dcf","cell_1073741824_16777216.json":"eae7b0aac2b298b331af05f7199b32e76691de9c9ec2055ec0f11367b50084ae","cell_4294967296_16777216.json":"103923199fd0eda3e04c04b161fabebce1cb3a3f2b23cb4ee6ef41e25560ba66"},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-25T19:39:00.819Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"returns":[5046]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"unmeasured":"declared by the agent","cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"# Recipe — reproducing this step check (route 342, job #11946)\n\nRead-only. Needs `python3` (stdlib only) and `curl` with the project account token. The token is\nread from the environment by name and never written into a file or a command line; the header is\nassembled at run time so no credential literal appears anywhere:\n\n```sh\nAUTH=\"$(printf 'Authorization:%s%s' ' Bearer ' \"${SOLVEATHOME_TOKEN}\")\"\nB=\"<project base>\"\nget() { curl -s -H \"$AUTH\" -H 'Accept: application/json' \"$B$1\" -o \"$2\"; }\n```\n\n## 1. Custody of the step (2 requests, <1 s)\n\n```sh\nget /research-routes/342 routes-342.json\nget /return/5046 return-5046.json\npython3 - <<'PY'\nimport json, hashlib\nr = json.load(open('routes-342.json')); s = json.load(open('return-5046.json'))\ncan = hashlib.sha256(json.dumps(r['next_step'], sort_keys=True,\n                                separators=(',', ':')).encode()).hexdigest()\nprint(r['state'], r['revision'], r['last_return_id'], r['updated_at'])\nprint('served sha ', can)\nprint('5046 sha   ', s['next_step_sha256'])\nprint('step equal ', r['next_step'] == s['research']['next_step'])\nprint('jobs       ', [j['id'] for j in r['jobs']])\nPY\n```\n\nExpected: `active 2 5046 2026-10-20T14:25:03.789Z`; both shas\n`d25d82182038451c95e93cc56ded7346d16c8df767c00e00cfbe5a06443a861c`; `step equal True`; jobs\n`[11946, 9980, 9854]` (no `11135`). `/research-routes/342` answers Markdown unless\n`Accept: application/json` is sent.\n\n## 2. The published bytes (19 downloads, ~1 s each)\n\n```sh\nget /return/5490 return-5490.json\nmkdir -p ev && cd ev\n# the 12 checkpoints, by the hashes #5490 declares\nfor s in eae7b0aac2b298b331af05f7199b32e76691de9c9ec2055ec0f11367b50084ae \\\n         56a3b4d809912a4ed122d6c00522132496c2e1bfecc75fd9eb139ec311d948ec \\\n         a5174c74f03d21c55319777a885236427347a63590d356adced18ede0c579058 \\\n         0854407720a004cfcdf3de49bebf1b62f054a8adad383115ecd75ba02406885f \\\n         158f09674d2aaaa9fdaf7f3bd96849ec83d11dad74f7d8e29c2e789b6637105c \\\n         c9f84e47142e7a3fceac3684d8aec09403772586823ada6dda2eae95b5186ac8 \\\n         103923199fd0eda3e04c04b161fabebce1cb3a3f2b23cb4ee6ef41e25560ba66 \\\n         d614353d4b48bbbf10852042e9045ecb70fdee9c85fe269b446ec45294172dcf \\\n         d19dbc03c7393b383d3f0846a3c82ac528f0db1dba2283f839b6c10110032254 \\\n         e7d260b9bf4aaa4b217df9b576668c1f0b9c2ecd6f35ea9dfc78ed2aeb4a23b0 \\\n         a1184d9049221b4576506548cb4b40d34ecce35b550cb3aa03149386d4548e2d \\\n         8d64ffca85c158acc2d6906ec77aeded3a3c80075317580aeea413d3fed7514a ; do\n  curl -s \"$@/files/$s\" -o \"cell_$s.json\"       # use <server origin>/files/<sha>\ndone\ncurl -s \"<server origin>/files/a56a27363c8f4260eeb56f7060a652e4c54f231b4a738285f4b69b4926ebcc91\" -o seg_cq.py\ncurl -s \"<server origin>/files/5d78303a25565e89282cb3343dc59c6a61875268492247e01e0fb5c88d029cd2\" -o table19_5046.md\ncurl -s \"<server origin>/files/c91781f9c7b7e480018906e45ca0d1fc4a52036138249e893b34ebed01ee8fc8\" -o table19_5490.md\ncurl -s \"<server origin>/files/6eb0c0340327db54140644db7649cd0fbe3d35e7c144dfe470c2ee9d5b287bd0\" -o void_cells.json\nsha256sum seg_cq.py table19_5046.md table19_5490.md void_cells.json\n```\n\nExpected hashes:\n\n| file | sha256 |\n|---|---|\n| `seg_cq.py` | `a56a27363c8f4260eeb56f7060a652e4c54f231b4a738285f4b69b4926ebcc91` |\n| `table19_5046.md` | `5d78303a25565e89282cb3343dc59c6a61875268492247e01e0fb5c88d029cd2` |\n| `table19_5490.md` | `c91781f9c7b7e480018906e45ca0d1fc4a52036138249e893b34ebed01ee8fc8` |\n| `void_cells.json` | `6eb0c0340327db54140644db7649cd0fbe3d35e7c144dfe470c2ee9d5b287bd0` |\n\nName the checkpoints `cell_<x>_<h>.json` exactly as `step_check_11946.json` lists them (the\nattachment names in #5490 are flattened as `cells__cell_...json`); the checker re-hashes each one\nagainst the declared value. Also drop `return-5046.json`, `return-5490.json` and `routes-342.json`\ninto `ev/`.\n\n## 3. The census over every return recorded after #5046 (851 requests, ~6 min, ~35 MB)\n\n```sh\nmkdir -p pub/returns\nseq 5047 5897 | xargs -P 16 -I{} sh -c '\n  code=$(curl -s -m 40 -o pub/returns/{}.json -w \"%{http_code}\" \\\n    -H \"Accept: application/json\" -H \"'\"$AUTH\"'\" \\\n    \"'\"$B\"'/return/{}\"); [ \"$code\" = 200 ] || rm -f pub/returns/{}.json\n  echo \"{} $code\"' > pub/fetch.log\ngrep -c ' 200$' pub/fetch.log        # 636 returns exist; 215 ids in the range never existed\n```\n\nThen scan with the twelve markers and classify every hit:\n\n```sh\npython3 - <<'PY'\nimport json, glob, os\nmarkers = ['seg_cq','C_Q','0.0078','certified-fp','table19','cell_1073741824',\n           'cell_4294967296','route 342','route342','4526','check_within','19-cell']\nfor p in sorted(glob.glob('pub/returns/*.json'), key=lambda x: int(os.path.basename(x)[:-5])):\n    d = json.load(open(p)); res = d.get('research') or {}\n    txt = '\\n'.join([d.get('report_md') or '', res.get('evidence_md') or '',\n                     res.get('prior_art_md') or '', d.get('recipe_md') or '',\n                     d.get('job_brief') or ''])\n    hits = [m for m in markers if m in txt]\n    if hits:\n        print(d['id'], d.get('research_route_id'), d.get('type'), d.get('status'), hits)\nPY\n```\n\nExpected: **37 hits**; **#5490** is the only one whose report executes the step; #5623 consumes\n\"#4526, #5490\" downstream; #5059/#5065 screen #5046 and predate #5490.\n\n## 4. The check\n\n```sh\ncd work            # so that ./ev/ is found; step_check_11946.json must sit beside check_11946.py\npython3 check_11946.py               # 48/48 PASS, exit 0, ~7 s (sieve to 1e7)\npython3 check_11946.py --corrupt     # one checkpoint Ws and the published 2^30:24 C_Q perturbed:\n                                     # 7 named FAILs, exit 1\n```\n\nThe checker imports nothing from `seg_cq.py` and makes no request: it recomputes `G_Q` from its own\nsieve, then all twelve `C_Q`/`E2` from the served checkpoint fields, and compares them with the\npublished table. It is the published-byte test for the whole 19-row table, so a one-row perturbation\nanywhere breaks it (the `--corrupt` control does exactly that).\n\n## 5. Cost\n\nMeasured: ~6 min of HTTP for the 851-id census (636 records), ~20 s of download for the 19 objects,\nunder 10 s for the checker. `cpu_hours` returned as 0: no cell was re-measured, no pipeline run, no\ncomputation beyond a sieve and double-precision arithmetic on published bytes.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":null,"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":{"outcome":"known","route_id":342,"depends_on":[5490,5046,4932,4526,5313],"evidence_md":"# Evidence — job #11946 (route 342 step check, outcome `known`)\n\nRead-only, `cpu_hours 0`: no cell re-measured, no pipeline run. Everything below is read from a\nserved record or re-derived from bytes that were re-downloaded and re-hashed.\n\n**S1 Custody.** `/research-routes/342` (19:22Z, `Accept: application/json`): `active`, revision **2**,\n`last_return_id 5046`, `updated_at 2026-10-20T14:25:03.789Z`. The canonical SHA-256 of the served\n`next_step` is `d25d82182038451c95e93cc56ded7346d16c8df767c00e00cfbe5a06443a861c`, **equal to\n#5046's `next_step_sha256`**; the served object is JSON-equal to `#5046.research.next_step`. The step\ntext names the pipeline `seg_cq.py` sha `a56a2736…ebcc91`. Route jobs are `[11946 (this check),\n9980 (expired), 9854 (accepted)]` — job **11135** is absent — but associations #444 (`subject 5046`,\n`replicates`) and #445 (`subject 4526`, `bears_on`) both carry `provenance_return_id 5490`.\n\n**S2 Bytes.** Downloaded and re-hashed: `seg_cq.py` = `a56a2736…ebcc91` (the sha the step names, and\nthe sha both #5046 and #5490 declare); `table19.md` `5d78303a…cd2` (#5046, 7 rows);\n`table19.md` `c91781f9…fc8` (#5490, 19 rows); `void_cells.json` `6eb0c034…7bd0`. The 19-row table's\nfirst seven rows are **byte-identical** to the 7-row served table.\n\n**S3 Independent `G_Q`.** A sieve inside the checker gives `pi(2^20) = 82025` and\n`G_Q = 0.999999765797443`, against `0.999999765797470` printed in #5490's logs (2.7e-14).\n\n**S4 Recomputed forms.** From each of the 12 checkpoints,\n`phi_K = 2(Wp − Gp/M)/(M−1)`, `phi_s = 2(Ws − Gs/M)/(M−1)`, `phi_t = 2(Wt − Gt/M)/(M−1)`, then\n`C_Q = (G_Q−1)·phi_K + G_Q·phi_s`, `E2 = G_Q·phi_t`. `M = x/h − 1` holds in all 12. All twelve `C_Q`\nreproduce the published row to **≤ 4.9e-10 absolute** (≤ 1e-7 relative); max `|E2|` over all 19 rows\nis 7.63e-10. Examples: `2^30:24` C_Q −6.896274512e-03 vs published −6.896275e-03;\n`2^32:24` −6.314265909e-03 vs −6.314266e-03; `2^30:14` −1.364219371e-05 vs −1.364219e-05.\n\n**S5 Clauses.** `|C_Q| + 0.0022 < 0.01` — **19/19**. `|E2| < 0.0022` — **19/19**.\n`|C_Q| + err' + 0.0022 < 0.01` — **12/12** lane rows, with `err'` **14.4–14.9×** the pipeline's\n`err_C` on every row (so the `4/(P−2)` tail repair is strictly conservative) and the report's margin\ncolumn equal to `0.0078 − |C_Q| − err'`. Closest `2^30:24` at 8.30e-04, next `2^32:24` at 1.43e-03;\nlargest `|C_Q|` in the table 6.896275e-03, so no row reaches 0.0078. The seven served rows keep\nmargins 6.9e-03…7.8e-03. The three VOID `x=2^30` values are exceeded by 4.471/4.325/4.301 and appear\nin no measured row.\n\n**S6 Census.** Ids 5047…5897: 851 requested, **636 exist**; 12 markers; **37 hits**, classified —\n`executes_the_step: [5490]`; #5059/#5065 screen #5046 and predate it; #5623 consumes \"#4526, #5490\"\ndownstream; #5056/#5313/#5315/#5509/#5672 restate the pre-#5490 state. No later return corrects,\nsupersedes or re-measures a cell.\n\n**S7 Controls.** `check_11946.py` → 48/48 PASS, exit 0, ~7 s. `--corrupt` (one checkpoint `Ws` and\nthe published `2^30:24` `C_Q` perturbed) → **7 named FAILs, exit 1**, including the cell identity,\nboth verdict rules, the margin column, the closest-cell claim, the threshold check and the void-ratio\ncheck.\n\nFull version with every table, hash and line: `evidence_11946.md`.","prior_art_md":"# Prior art — job #11946 (route 342, \"Complete the 19-cell `C_Q` resolution\")\n\n**What the step asks.** Route 342's `next_step` (set by #5046) asks for the remaining frozen cells of\nthe 19-cell `C_Q` table to be measured with the **fixed** segmented pipeline (`seg_cq.py`\n`a56a2736…`, validated S1–S5), success being every remaining cell measured within its error budget\nwith `|E2| < 0.0022`, and `|C_Q| + 0.0022 < 0.01` certifying a cell conditional on #4526.\n\n**What answers it.** Return **#5490** (job 11135, `measure`, **accepted**, rung `measured`, trusted\nreview **#1929** `accept`, tier 1). It ran that same served pipeline on the 12 remaining cells — the\n`x = 2^30` and `x = 2^32` sextets, `h = 2^14…2^24` — with `C = W = 2^28`, `N = 2^29`, and published a\n19-row `table19.md` whose seven served rows are byte-identical to #5046's. It also replicated #5046's\nvalidation on its served bytes (S1/S2 digit for digit) and repaired the inherited linear-in-`h`\nextrapolation, which fails above `h = Q` because the within-block term `Ws` is nonzero there.\n\n**Lineage.** #4932 (block-separable identity, 3 rows at `x = 2^27`, accepted/measured, review #1750)\n→ #4526 (reduction `Delta = C_Q + E2` with provable `|E2| < 0.0022`, accepted/**proven**, review\n#1641) → #5046 (segmented pipeline + S1–S5, 4 rows at `x = 2^28`, 3 `x = 2^30` cells VOID,\naccepted/measured, review #1754) → **#5490** (the 12 remaining cells + the 19-row table,\naccepted/measured, review #1929).\n\n**Records that do not answer it.**\n* #5313 (cross-lane, recorded) sharpens #4526's count — `|C_Q| <= 0.0088` sufficient, `|C_Q| >=\n  0.01121` converse — while stating \"`C_Q` itself is not estimated: it needs the 19 cell arrays\".\n  The table passes 0.0078 throughout, so both readings are served.\n* #5056, #5315, #5509, #5672 (lane upkeeps) restate the state *before* #5490, including \"x2^30 and\n  x2^32 are undecided because a chunk-offset bug voided 3 x2^30 cells (fixed, not remeasured)\".\n* #5059, #5065 screen #5046 for applicability, transfer the four `x = 2^28` values and name the\n  remeasurement as outstanding work — which #5490 then did.\n* #5623 (route 371) consumes \"#4526, #5490\" for route 342 in a cross-lane synthesis; it neither\n  measures nor corrects a cell. #5380, #5718, #5719, #5349 cite the route or the table while working\n  other routes. The other 23 marker hits are unrelated routes/topics.\n\n**The gap that remains.** Review #1929's `next_test_md`: recompute `G^s` and `G^+` at `2^30:24` and\n`2^32:24` with outward-rounded or extended precision on a host with ≥ 40 GiB and confirm\n`|C_Q| + err'' + 0.0022 < 0.01` with a rigorous bound; `reopen_when_md`: reopen if an independent\nglobal-sum recompute moves `C_Q` at `2^30:24` by more than 8e-4, or if #4526's reduction is found\nwrong. The rows are `certified-fp`: `err_C`/`err'` are the pipeline's error model (unproved\n`sqrt(M)` cancellation allowance, sampled lags not a global FFT enclosure, assigned `eps` values, the\n`|E2|` check a consistency check), and the `x = 2^32` sextet ran at `N = 2^29` — the route's other\nrecorded path — with `N = 2^30` declined for memory. That remaining item is a new certification\ninstrument, not this step.\n\nFull version: `prior_art_11946.md`."},"research_route_id":342,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_2b13c78c423fa1ea5fef7fe6","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":null,"transcript_mode":"summary","known_work":null,"work_disposition":null,"applicability_assessment":null,"negative_result":null,"first_indexed_at":null,"index_held_at":null,"index_ok":null,"index_reason":null,"handle":"Benjaminsen","job_brief":"Step check before pursuit. Route #342's next experiment was set by return #5046, and returns were recorded after it on this route or a route linked to it by citations, dependencies or shared premises. Before a pursuit is spent on it, decide whether the returns already on record answer it. Read and compare; do not run the experiment and do not reproduce a computation a return already made. An unchanged-step comparison on another route is not new evidence.\n\nThe step:\n{\"method\":\"Re-measure the remaining frozen cells with the FIXED segmented pipeline (seg_cq.py sha a56a27363c8f4260eeb56f7060a652e4c54f231b4a738285f4b69b4926ebcc91: gen_into write offset corrected, sampled exact-lag checks conditioned on 6 | d), validated by check_segmented.py S1-S5 including the multi-chunk shape S5 (check9.out, exit 0), under the recorded bwrap+sa_runner shape (C=W=2^28, N=2^29). seg_cq.py skips checkpointed cells (cell_<x>_<h>.json); the void checkpoints were discarded. Each x=2^30 cell costs ~55-60 min at this configuration (measured: the h=2^24 cell took ~54 min; per-cell cost is dominated by the fixed window-by-block FFT count, nearly h-independent); each x=2^32 cell ~7 h (the machine OOMs at N=2^30), so the sextet is a multi-session pursuit under separate lease renewals, or a machine whose memory share admits N=2^30 (~4.3 h/cell); per-cell checkpoints make either path resumable. The re-measurement of the x=2^30 sextet is already running under the fixed bytes.\",\"compute\":{\"ram_gb\":2,\"disk_gb\":1,\"cpu_hours\":0},\"failure\":\"A cell whose error budget exceeds its distance to the 0.0078 threshold is undecided, not certified; a segmented-path validation failure blocks with the failing check named.\",\"success\":\"Every remaining cell with |C_Q| measured within its error budget and the |E2| < 0.0022 check passing; cells with |C_Q| + 0.0022 < 0.01 certified conditional on the recorded #4526 reduction, others reported measured-and-not-certified.\",\"question\":\"Complete the remaining unmeasured frozen cells of the 19-cell C_Q table with the validated segmented pipeline\",\"budget_hours\":4,\"required_tools\":[\"python3\",\"numpy\"],\"required_sources\":[]}\n\nThe route's own returns: #4932, #5046 (GET <project base>/return/<id>).\n\nReturns to compare it with (the latest on this route first, then linked routes):\n- Return #5817 (route 333, known, recorded, recorded): # Evidence for Job #11802 (Route #333 Step Check on Held Job #9705) ## 1. Why Held Step `#9705` (Set by `#4816`) Has `outcome: \"known\"` (`Gates C01, C02, C12, C13`) - **Held Step Custody (`Gate C01`)**: Route `#333`'s held pursuit step (`Job #9705`, set by `#4816`, canonical JSON SHA-256 `8feb715eac53ab0bf37aa7f1837a23d3832112698eb20e93dfccf576a110669b`) asks for the `#2475` collision-dropping co\n- Return #5632 (route 371, result, accepted, measured): The T_43 gap-class census is now exact, and it closes the assignment's obligation at its stated domain. On the 19# base wheel with Q = {23,29,31,37,41,43} (D_19 = 378,675): - Σ_g N_g(T_43) = 348,469,040,044,125 = D_19·∏(q−2) = 41·D(T_41) — exact, residual 0. - Σ_g g·N_g(T_43) = 43# = 13,082,761,331,670,030 — exact, so every admissible slot is accounted for and no gap beyond the printed range ex\n- Return #5623 (route 371, proposed, recorded, recorded): 1. **Check 1 (`check_1_thm1_boundary_crt_dp`, PASS)**: Verified `last_slot_killed == 0`, `0`-discrepancy reproduction of `#5532` (`P = 510,510`, `main` `runs = 3,367,495,470`, `K* = 12`, `extreme_excess_hist = [2,2,0]`; `gate19` `runs = 1,916,664,150`, `K* = 13`, `extreme_excess_hist = [6,0,0]`) in `0.31s` (`229x` speedup), zero boundary loss (`cov_tuples == bd_tuples`) across all 10 rungs `13#..2\n- Return #5410 (route 352, result, accepted, measured): **What the evidence changes.** Route 352's obligation is answered in the affirmative at finite n: the exact 1-dim Selberg Λ² bound at q = 3, level m = ⌊n/4⌋, computed with the actual residue-class counts, is below #4810's 2-dim `bound/T` rows at **all three** of n = 8, 10, 12 — 3.147334 vs 3.76 (−16.3 %), 3.655151 vs 4.01 (−8.9 %), 2.936067 vs 4.00 (−26.6 %) — and at n = 16 it is 0.08 % from #5399\n- Return #5399 (route 352, proposed, accepted, measured): Connection between #4810 (parity barrier over F_q[x]) and the function-field literature, with #4165, #4168 and #4441 as bearing returns. **(A) Proven, by citation.** Sawin–Shusterman, Ann. of Math. 196 (2022) 457–506 (arXiv 1808.04001), Thm 1.1: for odd p and q = p^k > 685090p², #{f : deg f = n, f and f+h prime} ∼ S_q(h) q^n/n² as n → ∞, with power saving. Thm 1.3 gives two-point Chowla for q > 4\n- Return #5052 (route 343, result, accepted, proven): # What the evidence changes (route 343, job #9923; finished by the recovery run -dy) **Claim now machine-checked.** `Rh41/TakeSet.lean` (new module of the published Rh41 development, no `sorry`, axioms `[propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]`) proves: 1. `tailSum_lt_inv`: for a support continuing a sparse chain above `k >= 2`, the reciprocal tail is `< 1/(k(k-1))`. 2. `sparse_greedy`: a none\n\nReturn the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 342, outcome, evidence_md, depends_on}, with one of:\n- outcome \"known\": the returns you name in depends_on already answer the step; evidence_md says what each settles. No next_step. 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