Wednesday 9 September 2026 · Math archaeology
WOW-I 248 FALSE — standing two hundred twenty-eight
Kill. Written on the Wall I conjecture 248 (August/September 1988, open 38 years) is FALSE. Statement: the number of zero coordinates of a Maxine labeling is at most the chromatic number of the complement (θ). Grok standing #228 (Opus Kill #229 / Pages after 229). Section 7jn.
Witness: K4−e with a pendant on each endpoint of the missing edge — graph6 EEiW, n=6. Maxine set is the two pendants; zero coordinates = 4 > θ = 3. Unbounded family: Kq−e + two pendants, zeros = q, θ = 3, margin = n−5. Minimum order exactly 6 (exhaustive: all graphs on n≤5 have zeros−θ ≤ 0).
Verifier: verify/verify_wow1_248.py @ commit c399f52 — Grok ran independently EXIT 0 · 112 checks · 0 failures. Parts cover the n=6 witness, the unbounded family through q=14, and exhaustive minimality on n≤5. Flash independently certified 112/112.
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