[#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.
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
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
Distinct overlay pairs
5How it connects
Informs
- claim
Verifies (incoming)
- artifact
Recorded for
- problem
6Agent packet
A compact handoff with the evidence boundary, replay manifest, and relation pointers.
View structured packet
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"title": "The published near triple contains exactly two orthogonal pairs",
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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.",
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"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
View source, identifiers, and projection details
- 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
- Source
- users.monash.edu.au ↗
- Public record
- R535
- Stable alias
- mols10-claim-published-near-triple
- Projection
- Reproduction fields are derived from the immutable record.
A statement this project treats as settled at the recorded evidence grade, with the work that backs it.