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R535claimStatus: supportedEvidence: ReproducedReplay: source onlyexhaustive over its scope

[#R535] The published near triple contains exactly two orthogonal pairs

claim. All three arrays are Latin; the A-B and A-C overlays have 100 distinct pairs, while the B-C overlay has 91.

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1Summary

Egan and Wanless publish three order-10 Latin squares \(A,B,C\) in their Section 8 and on Wanless's companion-data page. The public file uses letters `a` through `j` for symbols 0 through 9 and has SHA-256 digest `04db7b4b17a2321b754b694b6b3f894dd5181808a4580dbd6b3a42587dfb488a`.

The executable replay checks every row and column of all three squares. It then checks all 100 cells in each overlay. The \((A,B)\) and \((A,C)\) overlays each contain all 100 ordered symbol pairs. The \((B,C)\) overlay contains 91 distinct pairs. Its nine repeated pairs are `bi`, `cj`, `dh`, `ei`, `fj`, `gh`, `hi`, `ij`, and `jh`, each occurring twice. Its nine missing pairs are `bj`, `ch`, `di`, `ej`, `fh`, `gi`, `hj`, `ih`, and `ji`.

Reproduced evidence. Recorded scope: the first three complete Latin squares in the public neartripleMOLS10.txt file.

2Evidence

Evidence package: source only

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

Verification source: users.monash.edu.au ↗, Judith Egan and Ian M. Wanless, Enumeration of MOLS of small order, Mathematics of Computation 85(298) (2016), 799-824, DOI 10.1090/mcom/3010, Section 8 (Order 10), displayed squares A, B, C and the following paragraph; public companion file neartripleMOLS10.txt

3Overview

Thus the file supplies two explicit 2 MOLS(10) witnesses sharing \(A\). The collisions in the third overlay keep it outside the acceptance condition for a triple.

4What was measured

Source file sha256
04db7b4b17a2321b754b694b6b3f894dd5181808a4580dbd6b3a42587dfb488a
Canonical complete squares sha256
7deb5d7d764dc59aec0c8eafa7280b460c4db68545a11204002c5732edd80daf
Latin squares verified
3
Orthogonal pairs
A-B, A-C
Is three mols witness
no

Symbol encoding

a0b1c2d3e4f5g6h7i8j9

Distinct overlay pairs

A B100A C100B C91

5How it connects

Verifies (incoming)

Recorded for

6Agent packet

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

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  "relevance": "For Three mutually orthogonal Latin squares of order ten, record mols10-claim-published-near-triple (“The published near triple contains exactly two orthogonal pairs”) records a bound, answer, status fact, or structural consequence. The record states: All three arrays are Latin; the A-B and A-C overlays have 100 distinct pairs, while the B-C overlay has 91.",
  "relevance_source": "recorded",
  "body": "Egan and Wanless publish three order-10 Latin squares \\(A,B,C\\) in their Section 8 and on Wanless's companion-data page. The public file uses letters `a` through `j` for symbols 0 through 9 and has SHA-256 digest `04db7b4b17a2321b754b694b6b3f894dd5181808a4580dbd6b3a42587dfb488a`.\n\nThe executable replay checks every row and column of all three squares. It then checks all 100 cells in each overlay. The \\((A,B)\\) and \\((A,C)\\) overlays each contain all 100 ordered symbol pairs. The \\((B,C)\\) overlay contains 91 distinct pairs. Its nine repeated pairs are `bi`, `cj`, `dh`, `ei`, `fj`, `gh`, `hi`, `ij`, and `jh`, each occurring twice. Its nine missing pairs are `bj`, `ch`, `di`, `ej`, `fh`, `gi`, `hj`, `ih`, and `ji`.\n\nThus the file supplies two explicit 2 MOLS(10) witnesses sharing \\(A\\). The collisions in the third overlay keep it outside the acceptance condition for a triple.",
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7Provenance

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Project
three-mols-order-10
Locator
Judith Egan and Ian M. Wanless, Enumeration of MOLS of small order, Mathematics of Computation 85(298) (2016), 799-824, DOI 10.1090/mcom/3010, Section 8 (Order 10), displayed squares A, B, C and the following paragraph; public companion file neartripleMOLS10.txt
License
CC0-1.0
Contributors
TheoremDB entry research, 2026-07-24
Public record
R535
Stable alias
mols10-claim-published-near-triple
Projection
Reproduction fields are derived from the immutable record.

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