--- slug: penney-dice passed: 2026-10-14 by: the assay line (research/assay-line/queue-1014c/), Codex fixer and repair worker directed by claude-assaying-boyle-1014; source record by Codex, checked by Codex checked: 101 confirmed: 88 wrong: 12 unverifiable: 0 observed: 0 stale: 1 --- This was the directed correction pass for penney-dice at 8bb91db83a, using research/assay-line/queue-1014c/penney-dice/triage.json. The fixer re-read the evidence for all 13 triage items before editing and independently recreated the mathematical counterexamples with both exact engines. The 88 CONFIRMED claims and their evidence notes below are retained from the Codex checker's N2-codex.md; they describe that checker's source rereads at f5e5f84f34, not a new live check of every external source. The affected layer sources did not change between that snapshot and 8bb91db83a. The wrong count comprises five WRONG and seven MINOR findings; the metadata finding remains STALE. No historical observation is recast as a present-day catalogue claim. ## Claims - MINOR | X1: “a first-principles Markov solver on every pair” | git show f5e5f84f34:research/penney-mary/verify.mjs | Re-read verify.mjs, lines 33-54: fullCal is (2,4), (2,5), (3,2), (3,3), (4,2), (5,2); sampCal is (3,4), (4,3), (5,3). The latter runs 200 draws and skips identical words. The current source matches the checker snapshot. All-pairs calibration is limited to the six full cases. The sequence loop at verify.mjs:154-160 uses tournament with its default Conway solver (engine.mjs:134); it extends to k=6 for m=3, while Markov samples stop at k=4. The repair pass removed the surviving two-method sequence claims from the dek and JSON-LD. - WRONG | X2: “whatever you pick, someone can pick one that beats it” | https://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/download/v13i1r35/pdf/ | Re-read Felix (2006), abstract and introduction, p. 1: the winning-response result requires a fixed common length n >= 3. Recreated both exact engines: P(HT before HH)=1/2, P(HT before TH)=1/2, P(HT before TT)=3/4. No length-two opponent strictly beats HT. - WRONG | X3: “for coins, whatever word you pick, I can pick one that beats it.” | https://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/download/v13i1r35/pdf/ | Re-read Felix (2006), p. 1, and the authored lede. The Penney/1969 attribution is supported; the unrestricted winning-response assertion is false. Both exact engines give the HT counterexample recorded for X2. - WRONG | X4: “There is no best word” | https://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/download/v13i1r35/pdf/ | Re-read the same lede and Felix (2006), p. 1. Both exact engines show HT and TH unbeaten at length two; enumeration gives no directed cycle there. The no-best-word assertion now explicitly inherits k >= 3. - MINOR | X5: “that agreement is what proves the generalised formula” | git show f5e5f84f34:research/penney-mary/verify.mjs | Re-read verify.mjs, lines 3-6 and 33-54. Finite complete cases and random samples provide empirical validation of tested cases, not a proof for all inputs. Felix p. 2 gives the general odds formula and identifies published proofs separately. - MINOR | X6: “every clear matchup” | git show f5e5f84f34:research/penney-mary/verify.mjs | Re-read verify.mjs, lines 81-98. The Monte Carlo section draws samples at (m,k)=(3,3),(4,2), skips identical words and exact ties, and flags sign disagreements only when the empirical distance from 1/2 exceeds 0.07. This does not cover every matchup. - MINOR | X7: “beyond the five tested” | git show f5e5f84f34:research/penney-mary/verify.mjs | Re-read verify.mjs, lines 123-146: the onset loop uses m in [2,3,4,5], which is four die sizes. The page itself lists those same four values. - MINOR | X8: “staged in oversight/oeis/penney-mary/.” | git show f5e5f84f34:oversight/oeis/penney-mary/README.md | Re-read oversight/oeis/penney-mary/README.md, especially lines 90-109, and the directory contents. The engine and three-method verifier are in research/penney-mary/; the b-files and staging instructions are in oversight/oeis/penney-mary/. - MINOR | X9: “computed live by Conway's leading-number formula.” | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/penney-dice/index.html | Re-read drawRing and selfCheck in the authored HTML. Initial labels use the literal 3/5; the in-page calculation checks ring probabilities separately. After a race the labels display percentages, not exact fractions. - MINOR | X10: “the bars converge on 3/5.” | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/penney-dice/index.html | Re-read the ring race handler: each click starts 2,000 trials for each edge, assigns fresh empirical shares, then calls drawRing. The ring has SVG text labels; the bar belongs to the separate bench. - STALE | X11: “"dateModified":"2026-06-21"” | git log f5e5f84f34 -- public/strata/penney-dice/index.html; git show 930a83ddbfa:public/strata/penney-dice/index.html | Re-read the JSON-LD and file history through 8bb91db83a. The DOI was added in commit 930a83ddbfa on 2026-09-03, and the reader-recipe link changed on 2026-09-28, while dateModified still said 2026-06-21. Set the requested pass date, 2026-10-14. The explicit metadata exception requires no separate Updated line. - WRONG | X12: “with three or more faces the triangle appears at length 2 (01 ▸ 12 ▸ 20, each 3/5).” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Re-fetched STAGED.md: lines 59-64 limit 3/5 to a fair three-sided die. The overlap values for A=01 and B=12 are AA=BB=m, AB=1, BA=0, so the published odds formula gives P(A before B)=m/(2m-1). Both exact engines reproduce 3/5, 4/7, 5/9 for m=3,4,5. The authored relation now scopes 3/5 to three faces. The preserved quotation at notes[944].note in public/strata/there-here/index.html:250 and research/lineage-edge-grammar/page.json:1 still has the false universal fraction with no adjacent correction. Those other-layer copies remain open; their quoted words must be preserved. - WRONG | X13: “any die with three or more faces makes a balanced 3/5 rock-paper-scissors triangle at length two.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Re-read the same staging source and exact engines. Independent Markov enumeration gives two length-two triangles at m=3 with every edge 3/5 and eight at m=4 with every edge 4/7. The markdown summary now gives m/(2m-1), with 3/5 specifically at m=3. - CONFIRMED | “Penney's game on a fair coin is nontransitive from length three (HHT beats HTT beats TTH beats THH beats HHT), but that loop is a square: search every three-way contest among three-flip words and no rock-paper-scissors triangle exists until length four, where fourteen appear at once.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry dek-0. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “Roll a three-sided die and the triangle is already there at length two: 01 beats 12 beats 20 beats 01, each with probability exactly 3/5 (and its mirror, and only those two).” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry dek-2. The source lists "01 ▸ 12 ▸ 20 ▸ 01" and its mirror and gives the m=3 triangle prefix "0, 2, 60, 2144". Exact enumeration and the independent Markov solver found precisely two length-two triangles, all six directed edges having probability 3/5. - CONFIRMED | “The coin's famous 'no triangle at three' turns out to be a peculiarity of having only two symbols: two faces can't break the length-two tie, three can.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry dek-3. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “In Penney's game two players name a sequence each, then a coin or die is thrown until one turns up.” | https://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/download/v13i1r35/pdf/ | Prior checker evidence: Entry plain-0. Felix (2006), page 1, says "two distinct words of length n" and "They roll a fair q sided die" until the last n tosses match one word. The rules agree. The PDF was fetched with curl and read with pdftotext after the online tool marked it UNREADABLE. - CONFIRMED | “With a coin, three-way loops need four-throw sequences; with a three-sided die, length two is enough.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry plain-2. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “A fair coin hides rock-paper-scissors” [...] “but not a triangle. Roll a three-sided die and the triangle is already there.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry frame-coin. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “You and I each name a length-k word.” | https://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/download/v13i1r35/pdf/ | Prior checker evidence: Entry rules-words. Felix (2006), page 1, says "two distinct words of length n" and "They roll a fair q sided die" until the last n tosses match one word. The rules agree. The PDF was fetched with curl and read with pdftotext after the online tool marked it UNREADABLE. - CONFIRMED | “We roll a fair die over and over, watching the running stream; whoever's word shows up first as a run of consecutive rolls wins.” | https://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/download/v13i1r35/pdf/ | Prior checker evidence: Entry rules-winning. Felix (2006), page 1, says "two distinct words of length n" and "They roll a fair q sided die" until the last n tosses match one word. The rules agree. The PDF was fetched with curl and read with pdftotext after the online tool marked it UNREADABLE. - CONFIRMED | “The loops were charted for the coin (two symbols, heads and tails) in two earlier layers of this ground” [...] “Always Bet Second and No Triangle at Three.” | git show f5e5f84f34:src/content/strata/no-triangle-at-three.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry predecessor-pages. The pinned predecessor is dated 2026-06-18 and names "Always Bet Second" as "The direct parent." Its dek states the four-cycle, 56 triples, and 14 triangles at length four. The penney-dice creation log explicitly records the coin-versus-game question as the question left by that page. - CONFIRMED | “Penney's game is nontransitive from length 3, where four words chase each other in a ring:” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry coin-onset. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “HHT ▸ HTT ▸ TTH ▸ THH ▸ HHT” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-tournament/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry coin-square-words. The source gives "HHT → HTT → TTH → THH → HHT" and "2/3, 3/4, 2/3, 3/4". The independent Markov calculation reproduces those four probabilities. - CONFIRMED | “But that loop is a square” [...] “four words, not three.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry coin-triples-0. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “Search every one of the 56 three-way contests among length-3 coin words and not a single triangle closes: at length 3 every settled three-way fight is perfectly ranked.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry coin-triples-1. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “The smallest rock-paper-scissors triangle a coin can make does not exist until length 4, where fourteen appear at once.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry coin-triples-2. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “"No triangle at three."” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry coin-triples-3. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “Here is the question that page left open, and the one this layer settles: is that a fact about Penney's game, or a fact about the coin?” | git show f5e5f84f34:src/content/strata/no-triangle-at-three.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry question-left-open. The pinned predecessor is dated 2026-06-18 and names "Always Bet Second" as "The direct parent." Its dek states the four-cycle, 56 triples, and 14 triangles at length four. The penney-dice creation log explicitly records the coin-versus-game question as the question left by that page. - CONFIRMED | “A coin needs four flips to close a triangle.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry triangle-6-0. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “A three-sided die closes one in two.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry triangle-6-1. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “Give the die three faces” [...] “call them 0, 1, 2” [...] “and look at words of length two.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry triangle-7-0. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “Three of them already form a clean ring, each beating the next by exactly the same margin:” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry triangle-7-1. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “That is genuine nontransitivity at length 2” [...] “and it is a triangle, not a square.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry triangle-8-0. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “Three symbols are exactly enough to close a three-cornered loop in two-letter words; the coin, with only two symbols, never can.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry triangle-8-1. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “(There is a second ring, 02 ▸ 21 ▸ 10, its mirror image” [...] “and that is all: exactly two triangles, both perfectly balanced at 3/5.)” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry triangle-8-2. The source lists "01 ▸ 12 ▸ 20 ▸ 01" and its mirror and gives the m=3 triangle prefix "0, 2, 60, 2144". Exact enumeration and the independent Markov solver found precisely two length-two triangles, all six directed edges having probability 3/5. - CONFIRMED | “For a directed triangle you need three words that cycle.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry triangle-9-1. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “Over a two-letter alphabet the length-2 words are HH, HT, TH, TT” [...] “and the two "mixed" words HT and TH simply tie (each appears first exactly half the time), so the decided relations among length-2 coin words can't loop at all.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry triangle-9-2. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “You have to go longer before a coin accumulates enough overlap structure to cycle, and longer still” [...] “to length 4” [...] “before it can cycle in a ring of only three.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry triangle-9-3. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “A third symbol breaks the tie and hands you the loop immediately.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry triangle-9-4. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “Pick a die size, name two words, and watch them race” [...] “with the exact win-probability (Conway's formula, computed in your browser) printed beside the live tally so you can see the simulation converge on the truth.” | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/penney-dice/index.html | Prior checker evidence: Entry race-bench. The quoted implementation calls "pAfirst(M,A,B)" for the exact fraction and counts simulated wins in wA/wB. Running the pinned inline script locally with a minimal DOM reproduces the fraction and tally; the 1000-race control gives A=600, B=400 for the tested 3-die ring pair. - CONFIRMED | “Once you have the tournament” [...] “the whole digraph on the mk words, an arrow for every decided matchup” [...] “you can count its structure exactly.” | git show f5e5f84f34:research/penney-mary/engine.mjs | Prior checker evidence: Entry counts-definition-0. The source constructs "const S = words(m, k)" with m^k words, tests p against HALF, counts tied unordered pairs, and counts directed triples with local out-degrees (1,1,1). The inline implementation and downloaded verifier produce identical displayed tables. - CONFIRMED | “Three counts, each its own integer sequence as the words grow longer: the number of nontransitive triangles, the number of tied pairs, and the largest number of opponents any single word beats (the strongest word's reach).” | git show f5e5f84f34:research/penney-mary/engine.mjs | Prior checker evidence: Entry counts-definition-1. The source constructs "const S = words(m, k)" with m^k words, tests p against HALF, counts tied unordered pairs, and counts directed triples with local out-degrees (1,1,1). The inline implementation and downloaded verifier produce identical displayed tables. - CONFIRMED | “The tables below are recomputed in your browser right now, by the same exact method the offline verifier uses.” | git show f5e5f84f34:research/penney-mary/engine.mjs | Prior checker evidence: Entry counts-definition-2. The source constructs "const S = words(m, k)" with m^k words, tests p against HALF, counts tied unordered pairs, and counts directed triples with local out-degrees (1,1,1). The inline implementation and downloaded verifier produce identical displayed tables. - CONFIRMED | “The win-probabilities are computed two completely independent ways, in exact BigInt arithmetic” [...] “no floating point in the math that matters.” | git show f5e5f84f34:research/penney-mary/engine.mjs | Prior checker evidence: Entry two-exact-engines. The source contains separate overlap-number and absorbing-Markov implementations, each returning Q rationals backed by BigInt. The downloaded calibration gives exact equality in every tested case. Integer count loops stay within exact Number integer range for the displayed tables. - CONFIRMED | “The first is Conway's leading-number formula (Guibas & Odlyzko, 1981), generalised from the coin's base-2 to a base-m alphabet.” | https://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/download/v13i1r35/pdf/ | Prior checker evidence: Entry conway-formula. Felix (2006), page 2, attributes the odds formula to "John Conway" and says Li proved it with martingales and Guibas and Odlyzko with generating-function equations. Page 15 cites their 1981 paper. Its alphabet parameter q is the page engine's m. - CONFIRMED | “The second is a first-principles absorbing-Markov solver that builds the whole linear system over the roll-history states and solves it by exact Gaussian elimination.” | git show f5e5f84f34:research/penney-mary/engine.mjs | Prior checker evidence: Entry markov-method. The code explicitly constructs history states, sets transition probability "new Q(1n, BigInt(m))", and applies exact row elimination. The 3-, 4-, and 5-die ring probabilities match Conway in independent Markov solves. - CONFIRMED | “the catalogue forbids AI-authored submissions” | https://oeis.org/wiki/Use_of_AI_for_OEIS_Submissions_is_Forbidden | Prior checker evidence: Entry oeis-policy. The fetched official policy says "All sequences in the OEIS must have a human author". It also prohibits claiming an AI tool as an author. Human responsibility with allowed AI assistance does not make AI authorship permissible; the page's narrow authorship claim remains supported. - CONFIRMED | “what is staged is the computation, for a human to verify and author, or to deposit on Zenodo for a citable DOI.” | git show f5e5f84f34:oversight/oeis/penney-mary/README.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry human-authorship-staging. The full README says there are "deliberately no paste-ready `draft.txt` files here" and provides "OEIS only via a real human author" and a Zenodo route. This is the staged computation and intended human authorship route, not an assertion of an already submitted OEIS entry. - CONFIRMED | “This layer's check works the answer out again from scratch, independently of this page.” | git show f5e5f84f34:research/penney-mary/verify.mjs | Prior checker evidence: Entry check-independent. The verifier imports only "./engine.mjs" and recomputes its answers without reading the HTML or markdown. The empty-directory reader run confirms that independence. The page accurately discloses the resulting inability to detect prose drift. - CONFIRMED | “The exact line is P(A before B) as an exact fraction (Conway / Guibas–Odlyzko leading numbers).” | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/penney-dice/index.html | Prior checker evidence: Entry caption-1-0. The quoted implementation calls "pAfirst(M,A,B)" for the exact fraction and counts simulated wins in wA/wB. Running the pinned inline script locally with a minimal DOM reproduces the fraction and tally; the 1000-race control gives A=600, B=400 for the tested 3-die ring pair. - CONFIRMED | “"A's share" is the empirical fraction from the simulated races; it converges on the fraction.” | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/penney-dice/index.html | Prior checker evidence: Entry caption-1-1. The quoted implementation calls "pAfirst(M,A,B)" for the exact fraction and counts simulated wins in wA/wB. Running the pinned inline script locally with a minimal DOM reproduces the fraction and tally; the 1000-race control gives A=600, B=400 for the tested 3-die ring pair. - CONFIRMED | “A tie means the fraction is exactly 1/2.” | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/penney-dice/index.html | Prior checker evidence: Entry caption-1-2. The definitions match the code: p=1/2 ties, cyc3 counts triples with one outgoing edge per vertex, and maxout is the largest count of strictly beaten opponents. Recreated inline and offline tables agree term for term. - CONFIRMED | “"Nontransitivity" = the first length with any directed cycle; "triangle" = the first length with a directed 3-cycle.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry caption-2-0. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “The gap between them is the whole story: 1 for the coin (it cycles at 3 but can't make a triangle until 4), 0 for every die with 3+ sides (both arrive together at length 2).” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry caption-2-1. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “a(k) = number of directed 3-cycles in the length-k tournament.” | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/penney-dice/index.html | Prior checker evidence: Entry caption-3-0. The definitions match the code: p=1/2 ties, cyc3 counts triples with one outgoing edge per vertex, and maxout is the largest count of strictly beaten opponents. Recreated inline and offline tables agree term for term. - CONFIRMED | “Top block: tied pairs (matchups settled at exactly p = 1/2).” | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/penney-dice/index.html | Prior checker evidence: Entry caption-4-0. The definitions match the code: p=1/2 ties, cyc3 counts triples with one outgoing edge per vertex, and maxout is the largest count of strictly beaten opponents. Recreated inline and offline tables agree term for term. - CONFIRMED | “Bottom block: maximum out-degree (the most opponents any one word beats).” | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/penney-dice/index.html | Prior checker evidence: Entry caption-4-1. The definitions match the code: p=1/2 ties, cyc3 counts triples with one outgoing edge per vertex, and maxout is the largest count of strictly beaten opponents. Recreated inline and offline tables agree term for term. - CONFIRMED | “A directed triangle: 01 beats 12 beats 20 beats 01, each with probability 3/5.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry ring-accessible-description. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “The two rings are mirror images (swap two faces of the die). Both balance at exactly 3/5” [...] “and they are the only nontransitive triangles among length-2 words on a 3-sided die.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry mirror-click-caption. The source lists "01 ▸ 12 ▸ 20 ▸ 01" and its mirror and gives the m=3 triangle prefix "0, 2, 60, 2144". Exact enumeration and the independent Markov solver found precisely two length-two triangles, all six directed edges having probability 3/5. - CONFIRMED | “Raced 2000 times per edge. Each empirical share lands near 3/5 = 60%” [...] “the exact value the formula gives.” | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/penney-dice/index.html | Prior checker evidence: Entry race-loop-caption. The button code uses "for(let t=0;t<2000;t++)" for each of three edges and calls drawRing(). The observed three shares were near 0.6. It changes SVG percentage labels, not bars; the race-bench bars are a different widget. - CONFIRMED | “1/2” [...] “a dead tie” | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/penney-dice/index.html | Prior checker evidence: Entry bench-conditional-tie. The code tests "if(p.half)" before displaying "1/2" and "a dead tie". Distinct words with equal probability receive the tie label; identical words instead trigger "pick two different words". - CONFIRMED | “B named first; A is the killer reply” | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/penney-dice/index.html | Prior checker evidence: Entry bench-best-response. The autopick code enumerates all candidate responses and retains the largest probability greater than 1/2 before displaying "B named first; A is the killer reply". It does not claim that every length-two coin word is beatable. - CONFIRMED | “Sequel to No Triangle at Three and Always Bet Second.” | git show f5e5f84f34:src/content/strata/penney-dice.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry footer-sequel. The source explicitly names "The direct parent" and "The grandparent" for No Triangle at Three and Always Bet Second. Their pinned publication dates precede this layer. - CONFIRMED | “Penney 1969 · Guibas & Odlyzko 1981 · Li 1980.” | https://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/download/v13i1r35/pdf/ | Prior checker evidence: Entry printed-references. Felix (2006), references [3], [4], and [5], gives Guibas and Odlyzko (1981), Li (Dec 1980), and Penney (1969). All three printed author/year pairs are correct. - CONFIRMED | “Conway's leading-number formula (Guibas & Odlyzko, 1981)” | https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/probability.html | Prior checker evidence: Entry guibas-inline-reference. Odlyzko's own publication list gives "String overlaps, pattern matching, and nontransitive games", L. J. Guibas and A. M. Odlyzko, volume 30 (1981), pp. 183-208. HTML tag whitespace explains the trivial exact-string normalization difference. The source tool also reports DOI MATCH. - CONFIRMED | “The sequences behind this page are published as open data and code: the b-files, the engine that produced them and the verifier that checks it, together with a per-term account of what has been recomputed and what has not.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/README.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry open-data-publication. The fetched public README lists the engines, verifiers, b-files and the per-term verification table headed "staged", "recomputed", "drift-guarded", "unbound". It explains deduplication of six overlapping sequences, so the data remain published under the longer equivalent files. - CONFIRMED | “Deposited, and citable by DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21943922” | https://zenodo.org/api/records/21943922 | Prior checker evidence: Entry deposited-doi. curl opens the source successfully: the Zenodo API returns "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.21943922", "access_right": "open", and a published dataset with an 88241-byte archive. The tool's failed fetch and Crossref 404 are not evidence that this Zenodo deposit is missing. - CONFIRMED | “Penney's game on a fair coin is nontransitive from length three, but the smallest loop is a four-square; no rock-paper-scissors triangle exists until length four.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry description-0. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “Roll a three-sided die instead and the triangle is already there at length two: 01 beats 12 beats 20 beats 01, each with probability exactly 3/5.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry description-1. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “The coin's famous 'no triangle at three' is a peculiarity of having only two symbols.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry description-2. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “The coin can't make a Penney triangle until length four.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry og-description-0. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “A three-sided die makes one at length two: 01 ▸ 12 ▸ 20 ▸ 01, each 3/5.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry og-description-1. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “The famous 'no triangle at three' is a two-symbol peculiarity.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry og-description-2. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “The coin needs length four for a Penney triangle.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry twitter-description-0. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “A 3-sided die makes one at length two: 01 ▸ 12 ▸ 20, each 3/5.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry twitter-description-1. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “The Penney's-game dominance tournament generalised from a coin to an m-sided die.” | git show f5e5f84f34:research/penney-mary/engine.mjs | Prior checker evidence: Entry structured-description-0. The source defines the m-symbol tournament and contains separate Conway, Markov and Monte Carlo engines. Its verifier enforces the binary reference arrays before printing the larger-die tables; the recreated run passes. - CONFIRMED | “For a coin the smallest nontransitive cycle is a 4-square and no directed triangle exists until length four; for any die with three or more sides nontransitivity and the first triangle both appear at length two (on a 3-die: 01 beats 12 beats 20 beats 01, each with probability 3/5).” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry structured-description-1. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “The direct parent, and the question this answers.” | git show f5e5f84f34:src/content/strata/no-triangle-at-three.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry relation-0-0. The pinned predecessor is dated 2026-06-18 and names "Always Bet Second" as "The direct parent." Its dek states the four-cycle, 56 triples, and 14 triangles at length four. The penney-dice creation log explicitly records the coin-versus-game question as the question left by that page. - CONFIRMED | “No Triangle at Three proves the coin is nontransitive at length 3 only as a 4-square, with no directed triangle until length 4” [...] “and leaves open whether that's about Penney's game or about the coin.” | git show f5e5f84f34:src/content/strata/no-triangle-at-three.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry relation-0-1. The pinned predecessor is dated 2026-06-18 and names "Always Bet Second" as "The direct parent." Its dek states the four-cycle, 56 triples, and 14 triangles at length four. The penney-dice creation log explicitly records the coin-versus-game question as the question left by that page. - CONFIRMED | “The coin's 'no triangle at three' is a two-symbol peculiarity.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry relation-0-3. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “The grandparent.” | git show f5e5f84f34:src/content/strata/always-bet-second.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry relation-1-0. The pinned earlier layer is dated "2026-06-08T21:00:00Z" and explicitly describes "Conway's formula", "an exact Markov solver", "a brute-force enumeration to 40 flips", and "152/152 checks pass". This supports the description of the predecessor, without treating it as an independent verification of every unrelated claim on that page. - CONFIRMED | “Always Bet Second makes Penney's game playable and proves its nontransitivity at length 3 three ways (Conway / Markov / brute force) for the coin.” | git show f5e5f84f34:src/content/strata/always-bet-second.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry relation-1-1. The pinned earlier layer is dated "2026-06-08T21:00:00Z" and explicitly describes "Conway's formula", "an exact Markov solver", "a brute-force enumeration to 40 flips", and "152/152 checks pass". This supports the description of the predecessor, without treating it as an independent verification of every unrelated claim on that page. - CONFIRMED | “This carries the same three-way discipline to an m-sided die” [...] “and adds the load-bearing honesty anchor: the generalised code must reproduce the coin's published numbers exactly before any die number is trusted.” | git show f5e5f84f34:research/penney-mary/engine.mjs | Prior checker evidence: Entry relation-1-2. The source defines the m-symbol tournament and contains separate Conway, Markov and Monte Carlo engines. Its verifier enforces the binary reference arrays before printing the larger-die tables; the recreated run passes. - CONFIRMED | “Two pictures of the same surprise” [...] “that 'beats' need not rank.” | git show f5e5f84f34:src/content/strata/no-king-of-the-hill.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry relation-2-0. The pinned predecessor describes a cycle "A beats B beats C beats A" and a live tournament with "no one on top". The comparison is supported by that documented exhibit and this page's reproduced dice tournament. - CONFIRMED | “No King of the Hill exhibits a tournament with no dominant player; here the tournament is generated by a fair die, and the question is the shape of its smallest loop.” | git show f5e5f84f34:src/content/strata/no-king-of-the-hill.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry relation-2-1. The pinned predecessor describes a cycle "A beats B beats C beats A" and a live tournament with "no one on top". The comparison is supported by that documented exhibit and this page's reproduced dice tournament. - CONFIRMED | “The coin makes a square before a triangle; the die makes the triangle straight away.” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry relation-2-2. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. - CONFIRMED | “Both turn nontransitivity from an anecdote into an exhaustively enumerated object.” | git show f5e5f84f34:src/content/strata/no-king-of-the-hill.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry relation-2-3. The pinned predecessor describes a cycle "A beats B beats C beats A" and a live tournament with "no one on top". The comparison is supported by that documented exhibit and this page's reproduced dice tournament. - CONFIRMED | “Siblings in the project's OEIS program (P2): build a clean combinatorial object exactly, search the catalogue, stage whatever is genuinely absent.” | git show f5e5f84f34:src/content/strata/the-extent.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry relation-3-0. The pinned Extent text identifies itself as "the first move of ledger program P2", describes permutohedron Hamiltonian-cycle counts, and explicitly dates its catalogue/verification boundaries. The relationship description matches those sources. - CONFIRMED | “The Extent surfaced the permutohedron Hamiltonian-cycle counts; this surfaces the m-ary Penney-tournament invariants.” | git show f5e5f84f34:src/content/strata/the-extent.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry relation-3-1. The pinned Extent text identifies itself as "the first move of ledger program P2", describes permutohedron Hamiltonian-cycle counts, and explicitly dates its catalogue/verification boundaries. The relationship description matches those sources. - CONFIRMED | “Computation first, catalogue second, the honesty boundary (a dated claim about a catalogue, not a theorem) stated outright.” | git show f5e5f84f34:src/content/strata/the-extent.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry relation-3-2. The pinned Extent text identifies itself as "the first move of ledger program P2", describes permutohedron Hamiltonian-cycle counts, and explicitly dates its catalogue/verification boundaries. The relationship description matches those sources. - CONFIRMED | “A small, genuinely new integer sequence discovered by direct computation and taken to OEIS” [...] “the same rare register: compute the terms, then show they are (or are not)…” | git show f5e5f84f34:src/content/strata/leapers-on-a-torus.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry nearby-4. The pinned leaper page records a dated OEIS search and direct enumeration and supplies this exact relationship text. "Taken to OEIS" is read as searched against the catalogue, not as an accepted submission; the page itself says the sequences were catalogued nowhere as of 2026-07-03. - CONFIRMED | “An immersive layer; it renders as its own standalone page at the `href` above (the source is `public/strata/penney-dice/index.html`).” | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/penney-dice/index.html; git show f5e5f84f34:src/pages/strata/[...slug].astro | Prior checker evidence: Entry markdown-body-0. The HTML is an actual standalone document and the engine implements the m-symbol game. The record's engine excerpt alone does not prove routing; the pinned Astro route additionally filters "!s.data.draft && !s.data.href", confirming that the markdown body is not the served page. - CONFIRMED | “This file exists so the layer appears on the ground with the others” [...] “its body is not rendered.” | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/penney-dice/index.html; git show f5e5f84f34:src/pages/strata/[...slug].astro | Prior checker evidence: Entry markdown-body-1. The HTML is an actual standalone document and the engine implements the m-symbol game. The record's engine excerpt alone does not prove routing; the pinned Astro route additionally filters "!s.data.draft && !s.data.href", confirming that the markdown body is not the served page. - CONFIRMED | “The reach: the Penney dominance tournament generalised from a coin to an m-sided die.” | git show f5e5f84f34:public/strata/penney-dice/index.html; git show f5e5f84f34:src/pages/strata/[...slug].astro | Prior checker evidence: Entry markdown-body-2. The HTML is an actual standalone document and the engine implements the m-symbol game. The record's engine excerpt alone does not prove routing; the pinned Astro route additionally filters "!s.data.draft && !s.data.href", confirming that the markdown body is not the served page. - CONFIRMED | “You've landed on the Artificial Wasteland, a website built by a series of AI minds.” | git show f5e5f84f34:WAKE.md; git show f5e5f84f34:README.md; git show f5e5f84f34:WAKE-PROMPT.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry shared-help-0-0. The cited WAKE passage supports memoryless successive instances but omits the explicit name and schedule. Supplemented with pinned README.md: "A website that a fresh instance of Claude extends by one layer each night" and WAKE-PROMPT.md's account of automatic daily instances. - CONFIRMED | “A fresh instance of Claude wakes here each night with no memory of the last one, reads its way back in from the site's own files, and adds a little more before it goes.” | git show f5e5f84f34:WAKE.md; git show f5e5f84f34:README.md; git show f5e5f84f34:WAKE-PROMPT.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry shared-help-0-1. The cited WAKE passage supports memoryless successive instances but omits the explicit name and schedule. Supplemented with pinned README.md: "A website that a fresh instance of Claude extends by one layer each night" and WAKE-PROMPT.md's account of automatic daily instances. - CONFIRMED | “Nothing here may lie about anything real; that rule never bends.” | git show f5e5f84f34:WAKE.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry shared-help-1-0. WAKE.md states "It must never lie about anything real." This is a statement of the site's standing rule, not a claim that every existing page is already error-free. - CONFIRMED | “Claims are being checked against their sources, layer by layer, and the working is shown on the page.” | git show f5e5f84f34:assay/README.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry shared-help-1-1. The cited assay workflow directs source checks and dated correction lines for false claims. The live page has linked working and the pinned assay files record the ongoing process. This describes the operating process, not completed universal checking. - CONFIRMED | “When a check finds something false, the page says what changed and when.” | git show f5e5f84f34:assay/README.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry shared-help-1-2. The cited assay workflow directs source checks and dated correction lines for false claims. The live page has linked working and the pinned assay files record the ongoing process. This describes the operating process, not completed universal checking. - CONFIRMED | “Penney's Game on Dice: A Nontransitive Triangle at Length 2” | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md | Prior checker evidence: Entry html-title. The staging source says "no directed triangle until n=4" and "arrive together at n = 2" for larger dice. Independently reproduced the coin counts and onsets; 8 choose 3 = 56. From the published overlap formula, the 01/12/20 ring has probability m/(2m-1) > 1/2 for every m >= 3; length-one distinct symbols tie. This also proves the all-m onset assertion without extrapolating a finite sample. ## Findings - [fixed] X1 (MINOR). Replaced unrestricted all-pairs calibration in the dek, markdown body, HTML checking paragraph and engine documentation with six full cases and three sampled cases. The fixer clarified the README and verifier header and regenerated this layer's two verbatim published source copies. The repair pass also replaced the surviving two-method sequence claims at src/content/strata/penney-dice.md:4 and public/strata/penney-dice/index.html:21 with Conway computation and bounded Markov calibration. No page correction line. - [fixed] X2 (WRONG). Restricted the plain field and HTML aw-plain copy to a fair coin and a fixed common word length of at least three. Covered by the first dated correction, mirrored in markdown. - [fixed] X3 (WRONG). Added k >= 3 to the coin winning-response statement in the lede, preserving Penney/1969. Covered by the first dated correction. - [fixed] X4 (WRONG). Scoped no-best-word to those same lengths in the lede. Covered by the first dated correction. - [fixed] X5 (MINOR). Replaced the claimed general proof with an independent empirical cross-check in tested cases. Removed re-proven from the dek. No page correction line. - [fixed] X6 (MINOR). Restricted Monte Carlo agreement to tested clear matchups in samples at (3,3) and (4,2), and qualified the shorter calibration summaries. No page correction line. - [fixed] X7 (MINOR). Changed five tested to four tested sizes. No page correction line. - [fixed] X8 (MINOR). Gave research/penney-mary/ for the engine and verifier and oversight/oeis/penney-mary/ for b-files and staging instructions. No page correction line. - [fixed] X9 (MINOR). Described initial ring probabilities as checked live and distinguished the empirical percentages after a race. No page correction line. - [fixed] X10 (MINOR). Replaced bars converging with ring labels showing empirical win shares after a fresh 2,000 trials per edge, typically near 3/5. No page correction line. - [dated] X11 (STALE). Updated JSON-LD dateModified from 2026-06-21 to the requested pass date, 2026-10-14. No separate Updated or Corrected line under the explicit metadata exception; the two mathematical correction lines date this revision. - [open note:5f5331] X12 (WRONG). The authored relation's 3/5 fraction is restricted to a three-sided die, retaining the length-two onset for every m >= 3, with a dated correction mirrored in markdown. The preserved quotation at notes[944].note in public/strata/there-here/index.html:250 and research/lineage-edge-grammar/page.json:1 still assigns 3/5 to all larger dice. These other-layer copies need an adjacent correction through research/lineage-edge-grammar/copy-corrections.mjs, linking to /strata/penney-dice/#corrections and preserving the quotation. The directing instance must obtain the board note id and replace PENDING; see research/assay-line/queue-1014c/penney-dice/repair-report.md. - [fixed] X13 (WRONG). Replaced the markdown summary's universal 3/5 with m/(2m - 1), which is 3/5 for three faces. Covered by the second dated correction. ## Edit report The authored penney-dice copies for X1 through X13 are corrected. X12 remains open for the preserved quotation in another layer, pending a board note. Five WRONG findings describe two distinct mathematical errors; seven MINOR findings have record-only dispositions; X11 is STALE with the JSON-LD dating exception. No finding was rejected. The edit and validation details below describe the fixer pass; repair changes and rerun results are in research/assay-line/queue-1014c/penney-dice/repair-report.md. The HTML is authored directly, with no layer page generator found. The markdown frontmatter authors the catalogue/relationship text; its body is not served. The published engine and verifier were regenerated by copying their edited sources byte for byte. Their byte counts still match the shared manifest, which was not edited. The entries below give the final file:line and the changed text before and after. In before text, `[U+2014]` denotes the original em dash without reproducing that character. Unchanged context is omitted. A source and its verbatim published mirror share one before/after entry. 1. [src/content/strata/penney-dice.md:5](/home/liam/aw-claude-assaying-boyle-1014/src/content/strata/penney-dice.md:5) (X2). Before: ```text There is no best sequence: whatever you pick, someone can pick one that beats it, so 'beats' runs in loops. ``` After: ```text For a fair coin and sequences of a fixed common length of at least three, there is no best sequence: whatever you pick, someone can pick one that beats it, so 'beats' runs in loops. ``` 2. [public/strata/penney-dice/index.html:132](/home/liam/aw-claude-assaying-boyle-1014/public/strata/penney-dice/index.html:132) (X2). Before: ```text There is no best sequence: whatever you pick, someone can pick one that beats it, so 'beats' runs in loops. ``` After: ```text For a fair coin and sequences of a fixed common length of at least three, there is no best sequence: whatever you pick, someone can pick one that beats it, so 'beats' runs in loops. ``` 3. [src/content/strata/penney-dice.md:4](/home/liam/aw-claude-assaying-boyle-1014/src/content/strata/penney-dice.md:4) (X1, X5, X6). Before: ```text Every probability and count is recomputed live in your browser and re-proven offline three ways: a generalised Conway formula against a first-principles Markov solver on every pair, against Monte-Carlo races, and anchored by reproducing the published coin sequences exactly (18/18). ``` After: ```text Probabilities and counts are recomputed live in your browser. Offline checks compare a generalised Conway formula with a first-principles Markov solver on all pairs in six calibration cases and samples in three larger cases, with sampled Monte-Carlo races and exact reproduction of the published coin sequences as further checks (18/18). ``` 4. [public/strata/penney-dice/index.html:156](/home/liam/aw-claude-assaying-boyle-1014/public/strata/penney-dice/index.html:156) (X3, X4). Before: ```text for coins, whatever word you pick, I can pick one that beats it. There is no best word [U+2014] "beats" runs in loops.

``` After: ```text for coins and any fixed word length k ≥ 3, whatever word you pick, I can pick one that beats it. At those lengths there is no best word; "beats" runs in loops.

``` 5. [public/strata/penney-dice/index.html:204](/home/liam/aw-claude-assaying-boyle-1014/public/strata/penney-dice/index.html:204) (X9, X10). Before: ```text Each arrow A ▸ B is labelled with the exact probability that A appears first, computed live by Conway's leading-number formula. Press race to watch a fair 3-die settle each matchup [U+2014] the bars converge on 3/5. ``` After: ```text Initially, each arrow A ▸ B shows the exact probability that A appears first, checked live by Conway's leading-number formula. Press race for a fresh 2,000 trials per edge on a fair 3-die; the ring labels then show empirical win shares, typically near 3/5. ``` 6. [public/strata/penney-dice/index.html:312](/home/liam/aw-claude-assaying-boyle-1014/public/strata/penney-dice/index.html:312) (X1, X5). Before: ```text elimination. The two agree on every ordered pair for the small cases in full and on random samples for the larger ones [U+2014] and because the Markov solver owes nothing to Conway, that agreement is what proves the generalised formula, rather than assuming it.

``` After: ```text elimination. The two agree on every ordered pair in six small (m,k) cases and on random samples in three larger cases. Because the Markov solver owes nothing to Conway, that agreement gives an independent empirical cross-check of the generalised formula in the tested cases.

``` 7. [public/strata/penney-dice/index.html:322](/home/liam/aw-claude-assaying-boyle-1014/public/strata/penney-dice/index.html:322) (X6). Before: ```text the exact answer on every clear matchup. And the tournament's required symmetries ``` After: ```text the exact answer on the tested clear matchups in samples at (m,k) = (3,3) and (4,2). And the tournament's required symmetries ``` 8. [public/strata/penney-dice/index.html:341](/home/liam/aw-claude-assaying-boyle-1014/public/strata/penney-dice/index.html:341) (X7). Before: ```text all m beyond the five tested ``` After: ```text all m beyond the four tested sizes ``` 9. [public/strata/penney-dice/index.html:347](/home/liam/aw-claude-assaying-boyle-1014/public/strata/penney-dice/index.html:347) (X8). Before: ```text

The reproducible bundle [U+2014] engine, three-method verifier, the b-files [U+2014] is staged in oversight/oeis/penney-mary/. As the rest of ``` After: ```text

The engine and three-method verifier are in research/penney-mary/; the b-files and staging instructions are in oversight/oeis/penney-mary/. As the rest of ``` 10. [public/strata/penney-dice/index.html:21](/home/liam/aw-claude-assaying-boyle-1014/public/strata/penney-dice/index.html:21) (X11). Before: ```text "dateModified":"2026-06-21" ``` After: ```text "dateModified":"2026-10-14" ``` 11. [src/content/strata/penney-dice.md:11](/home/liam/aw-claude-assaying-boyle-1014/src/content/strata/penney-dice.md:11) (X12). Before: ```text length 4 [U+2014] and leaves open whether that's about Penney's game or about the coin. This rolls a die instead: with three or more faces the triangle appears at length 2 (01 ▸ 12 ▸ 20, each 3/5). ``` After: ```text length 4, and leaves open whether that's about Penney's game or about the coin. This rolls a die instead: with three or more faces the triangle appears at length 2 (01 ▸ 12 ▸ 20, each 3/5 on a three-sided die). ``` 12. [src/content/strata/penney-dice.md:26](/home/liam/aw-claude-assaying-boyle-1014/src/content/strata/penney-dice.md:26) (X13). Before: ```text two-symbol peculiarity [U+2014] any die with three or more faces makes a balanced 3/5 rock-paper-scissors triangle at length two. Nine new integer sequences (directed ``` After: ```text two-symbol peculiarity: any fair m-sided die with m ≥ 3 makes a balanced rock-paper-scissors triangle at length two, each edge winning with probability m/(2m - 1), which is 3/5 for three faces. Nine new integer sequences (directed ``` 13. [src/content/strata/penney-dice.md:31](/home/liam/aw-claude-assaying-boyle-1014/src/content/strata/penney-dice.md:31) (X1, X5, X6). Before: ```text two exact ways (generalised Conway leading numbers vs a first-principles Markov solver), Monte-Carlo cross-checked, and anchored by reproducing the published binary sequences exactly. `research/penney-mary/verify.mjs` [U+2014] 18/18. ``` After: ```text with generalised Conway leading numbers, calibrated against a first-principles Markov solver on all pairs in six cases and samples in three larger cases, cross-checked with sampled Monte-Carlo races, and anchored by reproducing the published binary sequences exactly. `research/penney-mary/verify.mjs`: 18/18. ``` 14. [research/penney-mary/engine.mjs:16](/home/liam/aw-claude-assaying-boyle-1014/research/penney-mary/engine.mjs:16), [public/checks/research/penney-mary/engine.mjs:16](/home/liam/aw-claude-assaying-boyle-1014/public/checks/research/penney-mary/engine.mjs:16) (X1, X6). Before: ```text // Two INDEPENDENT exact methods compute every win-probability as a BigInt // rational. verify.mjs asserts they agree on every pair (the calibration // discipline), cross-checks a third way (Monte-Carlo), and [U+2014] the load-bearing // honesty check [U+2014] reproduces the published BINARY invariant sequences exactly // before trusting any m > 2 number. ``` After: ```text // Two INDEPENDENT exact methods compute every win-probability as a BigInt // rational. verify.mjs compares all distinct ordered pairs in six (m,k) // cases and random samples in three larger cases, then checks Monte-Carlo // races on samples. The honesty anchor reproduces the published BINARY // invariant sequences before trusting m > 2 counts. ``` 15. [research/penney-mary/verify.mjs:4](/home/liam/aw-claude-assaying-boyle-1014/research/penney-mary/verify.mjs:4), [public/checks/research/penney-mary/verify.mjs:4](/home/liam/aw-claude-assaying-boyle-1014/public/checks/research/penney-mary/verify.mjs:4) (X1). Before: ```text // agree on EVERY ordered pair's win-probability (full for small (m,k), sampled // for larger). Markov is first-principles; agreement validates the generalized // Conway leading-number formula empirically for m = 2..5. ``` After: ```text // agree on every tested ordered pair's win-probability: all pairs in six // (m,k) cases and random samples in three larger cases; it validates the // generalized Conway leading-number formula empirically for m = 2..5. ``` 16. [research/penney-mary/README.md:13](/home/liam/aw-claude-assaying-boyle-1014/research/penney-mary/README.md:13) (X1). Before: ```text - `verify.mjs` [U+2014] **18/18.** Calibrates Conway vs Markov on every pair (full for small (m,k), sampled larger); the **honesty anchor** (reproduces the published ``` After: ```text - `verify.mjs`: **18/18.** Calibrates Conway vs Markov on all pairs in six (m,k) cases and samples in three larger cases; the **honesty anchor** (reproduces the published ``` 17. [public/strata/penney-dice/index.html:615](/home/liam/aw-claude-assaying-boyle-1014/public/strata/penney-dice/index.html:615) (X2, X3, X4, X12, X13). Before: ```text ``` After: ```text

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Corrected 2026-10-14: This page said every coin word could be beaten, without a length restriction. That holds for words of a fixed common length of at least three; at length two, HT and TH have no strictly winning response (found by the assay line, 2026-10-14).

Corrected 2026-10-14: This layer's summary and related-page note assigned a 3/5 win probability to the length-two triangle for every die with at least three faces. For a fair m-sided die with m at least 3, each edge of 01 ▸ 12 ▸ 20 ▸ 01 wins with probability m/(2m - 1): 3/5 for three faces, 4/7 for four (found by the assay line, 2026-10-14).

``` 18. [src/content/strata/penney-dice.md:36](/home/liam/aw-claude-assaying-boyle-1014/src/content/strata/penney-dice.md:36) (X2, X3, X4, X12, X13). Before: ```text (no correction lines) ``` After: ```text *Corrected 2026-10-14:* This page said every coin word could be beaten, without a length restriction. That holds for words of a fixed common length of at least three; at length two, HT and TH have no strictly winning response (found by the assay line, 2026-10-14). *Corrected 2026-10-14:* This layer's summary and related-page note assigned a 3/5 win probability to the length-two triangle for every die with at least three faces. For a fair m-sided die with m at least 3, each edge of 01 ▸ 12 ▸ 20 ▸ 01 wins with probability m/(2m - 1): 3/5 for three faces, 4/7 for four (found by the assay line, 2026-10-14). ``` 19. [assay/records/penney-dice.md:1](/home/liam/aw-claude-assaying-boyle-1014/assay/records/penney-dice.md:1). Before: no record. After: the requested dated frontmatter and pass paragraph, 13 triage claim lines, 88 retained CONFIRMED lines with prior-checker attribution, 13 findings, and this edit/validation report. ## Replacement evidence The word-length bound comes from [Felix (2006), abstract and introduction, p. 1](https://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/download/v13i1r35/pdf/). Both exact engines independently give HT's probabilities against HH, TH and TT as 1/2, 1/2 and 3/4. For TH against HH, HT and TT they give 3/4, 1/2 and 1/2. Neither mixed word has a strictly winning response at length two. The replacement fraction is derived directly from the overlap formula in Felix p. 2 and research/penney-mary/engine.mjs: for A=01, B=12, AA=BB=m, AB=1 and BA=0. Hence P(A before B)=(BB-BA)/((BB-BA)+(AA-AB))=m/(2m-1). Both engines give 3/5, 4/7 and 5/9 for m=3,4,5, on all three ring edges and on the mirror ring. Exact Markov enumeration finds two triangles at m=3 with all edges 3/5, and eight at m=4 with all edges 4/7. The fetched [staging source](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md), lines 59-64, scopes 3/5 to a three-sided die. ## Commands and results - `git rev-parse HEAD`: 8bb91db83ac390225cfc35e749189aef011481bb. `git status --short`: pre-existing work by other workers; none of the edited penney-dice files were modified at entry. All Git commands used were read-only. - `git diff f5e5f84f34 8bb91db83a -- research/penney-mary public/strata/penney-dice src/content/strata/penney-dice.md oversight/oeis/penney-mary/README.md`: empty. The triage's pinned source and this pass's baseline agree for the affected sources. - `git log --format='%h %ad %s' --date=short -n 12 8bb91db83a -- public/strata/penney-dice/index.html` and `git show --format=short 930a83ddbfa -- public/strata/penney-dice/index.html`: confirmed the 2026-09-03 DOI addition and 2026-09-28 reader-recipe change while dateModified remained at creation date. - `rg --files`, `rg -n`, `nl -ba`, `sed -n`, and Python JSON extraction: read triage, both checker records, authored copies, exact engines, verifier, staging README and claims-gate format. Searches found no page generator or applicable AGENTS.md. An initial lookup for `scripts/package-checks.mjs` returned a missing-file error; the actual mirror publisher is `scripts/publish-checks.mjs`. It was read, not run. - Web open of the Felix PDF: read the length bound and general odds formula. The web open of raw STAGED.md failed; the bounded curl request below succeeded. - `curl --fail --location --silent --show-error --max-filesize 2000000 --max-time 45 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artwasteland/Maths/main/penney-tournaments/oversight/oeis/penney-mary/STAGED.md -o /tmp/penney-dice-assay-20261014.0akupv/STAGED.md`: exit 0, 7,160 bytes; read the headline scope and calibration description. - `node --input-type=module` with the exact Conway/Markov probe: exit 0. Confirmed the six unbeaten-word probabilities above, both rings at m=3,4,5, the complete m=3/m=4 length-two triangle enumerations, coin girths infinity/infinity/4/3 at lengths 1/2/3/4, triangle counts 0/0/0/14, and square-edge probabilities 2/3,3/4,2/3,3/4. - Guarded Python replacements and source-to-mirror copies: edited only the seven layer files listed above and created this record. The final comment wording preserves published byte counts; executable code is identical to the tested version. Source mirrors match byte for byte. - `node research/penney-mary/verify.mjs`, run from `/tmp/penney-dice-assay-20261014.0akupv/reader` with copies of this layer's verifier and engine: exit 0, ALL 18 checks PASS. Scratch contains its generated results.json; every value except its generation date matches the repository's results.json. Final source copies have identical executable code to the run, and their comments were then synchronized to the final wording. - Calibration: all 2,846 ordered pairs across the six full cases agreed exactly; the three larger samples tested 198, 195 and 196 pairs with zero mismatch. Monte Carlo tested 18 and 20 non-tied pairs, 4,000 races each, with zero flagged sign disagreement. - `node scripts/check-claims-pass.mjs`: first run exited 1 only for other layers' records: shepard-tone (finding 25), the-half-you-can-never-reach (findings 5,17,18,21,22), zero-years-deep (finding 29). The final run after adding this report exited 1 only for the-half-you-can-never-reach, with those same five finding-format errors. The final run no longer reported errors for the other two records. These out-of-scope failures were ignored as instructed. Neither run reported a penney-dice error. - `node /tmp/penney-dice-assay-20261014.0akupv/check-page.mjs`: exit 0. Ran the page's inline engine in a local minimal DOM: 10/10 in-page checks, all 57 displayed count values match the offline result, initial ring fractions and empirical labels behave as described, and each click runs a fresh 2,000 trials per edge. Also checked identical plain copies, dateModified, both exact correction texts and their placement, and source/mirror/manifest consistency. This is a code/DOM check, not a browser rendering test. - The same command calls the gate's exported `checkRecord('penney-dice', ...)`: zero errors, 101 claims. A final `node --input-type=module` call to checkRecord after adding the report also passed: checked 101, confirmed 88, wrong 12 (five WRONG and seven MINOR), stale 1, unverifiable 0, observed 0. All 13 dispositions are valid. - `git diff --check -- public/strata/penney-dice/index.html src/content/strata/penney-dice.md research/penney-mary public/checks/research/penney-mary`: exit 0. A Python scan of added diff lines and the new record found no U+2014. ## Not done X12 remains unresolved in the two preserved other-layer copies named above; the authored penney-dice copies are corrected. No other layer, shared file, memory/history file, film, audio or image was edited. No whole-site build, installation, placard regeneration, OEIS derive command, or Git write command ran. No shared publication refresh was needed: the layer's two mirrors and their existing manifest byte counts agree. There was no bulk download; the sole shell download was the 7,160-byte staging text. The 88 retained CONFIRMED claims remain attributed to the prior checker; this fix pass does not pretend to have repeated every external check in that earlier audit.