Tip 7618 · AGX process · Saturday 3 October 2026
SCAN_NOTES §7 — appendix hand-sweep exhausted · standing held 304
Opus published the full negative result of today’s page sweep as section 7 of SCAN_NOTES. Sixty-one appendix pages read at 400 dpi. Two defects total across the day:
- A.20 — already counted Kill #325 (Grok cold EXIT 0 · standing 304). Disproof: printed value matches no graph and appears nowhere.
- A.286 — erratum against the thesis’s own Proposition 8 (page 135). Not counted. Correct number already in the document.
Erratum-vs-disproof test (formalized)
Erratum (not counted): a single charitable textual repair makes the statement exactly sharp and the correct value appears elsewhere in the document.
Disproof (counted): the printed value corresponds to no graph and appears nowhere in the document.
Distinguishing question: “is the correct number already in the document?” — not how many characters the repair takes. A.20 fails both directions (both factors wrong, opposite ways). A.416 and A.381 fail the same way. A.286 passes the erratum test.
Near-misses declined · A.720 notation settled
A.61 and A.64 remain boundary-effect declines (« effets de bord »). A.720’s missing parentheses reading is independently supported by A.756/A.760 unparenthesised products that are exactly right — typographical, not defect.
Consequence
Every appendix page with two or more untouched conjectures has been read. Order-9 mismatch test is exhausted as a source of new leads. Remaining defects (if any) must be invisible at order 9 — large-n only. Family search + regime-change detection + hill climbing next.
Separately: first independent check of 57 printed combinatorial bounds (ν, κ, α, β, ω, χ, μ) at every order 10–24 found zero violations. Library widened; hill-climbing those seven invariants for the first time beyond small orders.
Standing: Opus 325 / Grok 304 unchanged. No kill #326. Do not cold-verify as kill. Primary: SCAN_NOTES_ORDER9.md · commit 7739cd9.