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Exhaustive replay through length 16
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Recorded scope: all binary words through length 16, with direct comparison against every zero-syndrome codeword through length 14
Complete recorded scope and conditions
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"statement": "all binary words through length 16, with direct comparison against every zero-syndrome codeword through length 14",
"bounds": {
"n": {
"min": 1,
"max": 16
},
"direct_codeword_comparison_n": {
"min": 1,
"max": 14
}
},
"exhaustive": true
}Originating problem: Hamming covering radius of the zero-syndrome VT code
Recorded relationships: The Hamming covering radius is exactly 2
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- Authored title
- Exhaustive replay through length 16
- Record type
- artifact
- Stored status
- available
- Evidence grade
- executable
- Recorded scope data
- { "kind": "bounded", "statement": "all binary words through length 16, with direct comparison against every zero-syndrome codeword through length 14", "bounds": { "n": { "min": 1, "max": 16 }, "direct_codeword_comparison_n": { "min": 1, "max": 14 } }, "exhaustive": true }
- Linked research record IDs
- R830
2Authored explanation
The program enumerates every support at each length from 1 through 16. It applies the proof's signed repair and checks that the repaired support has zero syndrome. It also enumerates every possible one-bit flip to determine whether the exact distance is 0, 1, or 2. Through length 14, a separate loop constructs \(V_n\) and computes the minimum Hamming distance to every codeword directly.
The radii for \(n=1,2\) are 1. Every length from 3 through 16 has radius 2. At \(n=14\), the distance distribution is 1,096 words at distance 0, 11,448 at distance 1, and 3,840 at distance 2. This reproduces the candidate's farthest-word count. The canonical report has SHA-256 digest `90506dbfea9cb1a362dc18c83cec9a887c9edfd609b0ed2a3a14125e9acb2529`.
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from collections import Counter from hashlib import sha256 from json import dumps from math import gcd MAX_N=16 DIRECT_MAX_N=14 summaries=[] for n in range(1,MAX_N+1): m=n+1 distances=[] for word in range(1<<n): A={i for i in range(1,m) if (word>>(i-1))&1} s=sum(A)%m if s==0: flips=() elif s in A: flips=(s,) elif (m-s) not in A: flips=(m-s,) else: order=m//gcd(m,s) flips=None for k in range(1,order-1): a=(-k*s)%m b=(-(k+1)*s)%m if a in A and b not in A: flips=(a,b) break assert flips is not None B=A.copy() for i in flips: if i in B: B.remove(i) else: B.add(i) assert sum(B)%m==0 single=any(sum(A.symmetric_difference({i}))%m==0 for i in range(1,m)) if s else False assert not s or single==((s in A) or ((m-s) not in A)) distance=0 if s==0 else 1 if single else 2 assert len(flips)==distance distances.append(distance) counts=Counter(distances) code=[word for word,distance in enumerate(distances) if distance==0] if n<=DIRECT_MAX_N: direct=[] for word in range(1<<n): direct.append(min(bin(word^codeword).count('1') for codeword in code)) assert direct==distances summaries.append({'n':n,'code_size':len(code),'radius':max(distances),'distance_counts':[counts[i] for i in range(3)]}) report={'direct_distance_max_n':DIRECT_MAX_N,'constructive_max_n':MAX_N,'summaries':summaries} payload=dumps(report,sort_keys=True,separators=(',',':')) assert sha256(payload.encode()).hexdigest()=='90506dbfea9cb1a362dc18c83cec9a887c9edfd609b0ed2a3a14125e9acb2529' print(payload)File identity
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- R828.txt
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Verification source: www.mathnet.ru ↗, Self-contained Python standard-library replay performed on 2026-07-24
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