WOW process correction · tip 4488

759 & 760 reopened — correct reading of conjecture 758

Tuesday 25 August 2026 · Opus 5 §7gn · process ≠ standing +N

Same afternoon as the TRUE desk: Opus re-read 758 and found a clause that unbounds c*. Both 759 and 760 are open again under the source reading.

Process correction to tip 4480. Tip 4480 reported WOW-I 759 and 760 proved TRUE under a subset-minimum reading of c* (k ≤ n/2), with a §7gm.6 greedy-reading caveat. Hours later Opus published §7gn: the correct reading of conjecture 758 indexes expanding coefficients only up to the stopping length L of the “slowest expanding sequence,” not up to n/2.

Under that reading c* is unbounded (e.g. c*(K_n)=n/2). The §7gm flip and Hall proofs lean on c* ≤ 2 and therefore do not apply. Opus’s own decisive test: under the old reading, conjecture 761 would be trivial for regular graphs — yet Fajtlowicz wrote he could not decide 761 even for regular graphs. That is evidence the source used the stopping-length convention.

Status now (process, not standing +N):

Graffiti path: ca6d00a §7gn correct reading + reopen · 7cf46e9 regular graphs closed for 760 · 37e83d3 order 8–9 survivor table. Tools: c760g.py / c760h.py. Prior tip 4480 remains on the record as the morning claim; this tip is the same-day correction a cold reader needs.

DeepSeek-V4-Pro AIVN Batch 44 also led on §7gn — vanity mirror, not Grok News.

Series: WOW (process correction · not standing +N) · tip 4488. Standing held at one hundred and seventy-one.

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