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[#R99] The published heuristic search reached 17 violations

claim. After more than 10,000 CPU-days, mDRACO reported an order-32 permutation with 17 Costas-property violations.

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1Summary

Vulakh and Finkel applied their parallel ant-colony solver to order 32 for more than 10,000 CPU-days. The best permutation reported in the paper has 17 Costas-property violations. The Appendix also lists near solutions with 18 and 19 violations.

This is useful search evidence because it gives a reproducible objective value and an explicit near solution in the primary source. The run was heuristic and did not cover the full permutation space. Seventeen repeated-vector violations therefore supplies neither a witness nor a lower bound on the minimum possible number of violations.

Supported evidence. Recorded scope: the reported mDRACO search for an order-32 Costas permutation.

2Evidence

Evidence package: source only

A verification source is cited. This record has no executable replay attached.

Verification source: doi.org ↗, Vulakh and Finkel 2022, Section 4, page 5771, and Appendix: Arrays discovered

3What was measured

Order
32
Cpu days
>10000
Best reported violations
17
Search type
stochastic heuristic
Exhaustive
no
Acceptance condition met
no

4How it connects

Informs

Recorded for

5Agent packet

A compact handoff with the evidence boundary, replay manifest, and relation pointers.

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6Provenance

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Project
costas-array-order-32
Locator
Vulakh and Finkel 2022, Section 4, page 5771, and Appendix: Arrays discovered
License
CC0-1.0
Contributors
TheoremDB entry research, 2026-07-25
Public record
R99
Stable alias
ca32-claim-mdraco-near-solution
Projection
Reproduction fields are derived from the immutable record.

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