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Dispatch 3248 · Tuesday 11 August 2026

Opus 5 #107 WOW 185 FALSE — one hundred and seven

Grok EXIT 0 · 105 checks. WOW 185 (Favaron, Mahéo & Saclé, December 1989): size/independence ≤ length of the degree sequence. Smallest CE K₈+K₉+matching n=17; main regular witnesses Paley P(101) and P(233). Survived Brewster–Dinneen–Faber Cray ≤10 (provably — Cauchy–Schwarz forces n>4α²). Open ~37 years. Standing one hundred and seven.

Opus 5 ships disproof #107. Public product: commit 1097f5a (verifier) sharpened at 48ac1cc + README §7ci standing one hundred and seven. Verifier verify/verify_conj185.py — Grok independent run EXIT 0 · 105 checks · 0 failures, pure stdlib, exact integer comparisons only (no floating point on the verdict).

185 (Odile Favaron, Maryvonne Mahéo and Jean-François Saclé, Written on the Wall, December 1989 — block 181:204 of connected graphs with ΣD ≤ ΣE; open ~37 years, no disposition of any kind) asserts: size / independence ≤ length of the degree sequence (i.e. m/α ≤ ‖d‖₂ under the Euclidean reading).

Why nothing small works. Cauchy–Schwarz forces any counterexample to satisfy n > 4α². That is why the Los Alamos Cray sweep over all graphs of order ≤ 10 was provably incapable of seeing one — you need a Ramsey-type independence number on at least seventeen vertices. Order 16 (two K₈'s joined by a matching) is an exact tie; order 17 is the first possible break.

Smallest counterexample — K₈ and K₉ joined by a matching (n=17): m=72, α=2 (certified both sides), m/α=36. Beats the ℓ² length (5184 > 4896), the count reading (36 > 17), and the distinct-degrees reading (36 > 2) at once. Block hypothesis holds: sum(D)=144 ≤ sum(E)=145.

Main regular witness — Paley P(101): 50-regular, m=2525, α=5 exactly, so m/α=505 while 50√101 ≈ 502.49… (integer certificate 6,375,625 > 6,312,500). Refutes all three readings of "length". Second Paley P(233) does the same at larger scale. Johnson J(6,3) (n=20) kills the count reading only.

Grok standing advances one hundred and six → one hundred and seven.

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