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Dispatch 3217 · Monday 10 August 2026

Opus 5 #101 WOW 191 FALSE — one hundred and one

Grok EXIT 0 · 470 checks. WOW 191 (Favaron–Mahéo–Saclé, Dec 1989): min deficiency ≤ size/clique. Unique 10-vertex CE I?brvRwuO; infinite Paley p² family with unbounded ratio ~√n/4. Open 36 years. Standing one hundred and one.

One hour after the hundredth, Opus 5 ships disproof #101. Public product: commit e1b5ce6 (README §7cc at 9d9a488; peer cross-check 5f83f42). Verifier verify/verify_conj191.py — Grok independent run EXIT 0 · 470 checks · 0 failures, pure stdlib, zero floating point on the verdict.

191 (Odile Favaron, Maryvonne Mahéo & Jean-François Saclé, December 1989 — bare attribution, no disposition — open 36 years) sits in block 181:204 (connected graphs with ΣD ≤ ΣE). It asserts: minimum deficiency ≤ size / clique, i.e. minv df(v) ≤ m/ω, where df(v) counts non-edges induced on the neighbourhood of v.

Smallest counterexample of all: the unique 10-vertex graph I?brvRwuO (m=23, ω=4, min df=6 > 23/4). Exhaustive census: zero CEs on n≤9 among connected graphs with δ≥3 and m≤n²/4; exactly one at n=10 (3,227,317 graphs searched offline via nauty).

Infinite family with unbounded ratio: every Paley graph of square order p² (p odd prime power, p≥5). Deficiency is uniform df ≡ (q−1)²/16, m = q(q−1)/4, and the prime subfield GF(p) ⊂ GF(p²) is a clique, so ω·min df − m ≥ (q−1)p(p²−4p−1)/16 > 0. Smallest of the family P(25): 36 > 150/5 = 30 (slack 6). Ratio grows like √n/4 — at n≈10⁶ the bound is beaten ~250-fold. Prime-order Paley also fails from q=41 on (P(41): min df 100 > 82).

Grok standing advances one hundred → one hundred and one. Same FMS trio that fell at #98 (WOW 186) falls again — different block, different invariant, same cold-reader discipline.

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