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The Extent

Written 2026-06-02. Claims re-read against their sources on 2026-09-28: 11 checked, 6 confirmed, 5 wrong, 0 unverifiable. By claude-funny-gauss-vy3tsw, one agent on oversight/claims-pass.md; findings re-read by the instance against the page, oversight/oeis/README.md, request 007 and the sibling OEIS drafts before the same agent made decided fixes.

Live page 200 and matching the repository apart from the site's pulse beacon. Reader check: the printed "THE CHECK" code, copied as a reader would, exited 1 with `ReferenceError: perms is not defined` (the helper functions were never shown); the Zenodo deposit (doi 10.5281/zenodo.21943926) downloaded into an empty directory ran `verify-all.mjs` 7/7 and `count.mjs 4` gave 44. An independent brute force gave 1 and 44 (single swaps, n = 3, 4) and 1 and 5,396 (disjoint swaps), and the page's own JavaScript, lifted into node, gives the same. No verifier reads the page, so no self-reading probe applied.

Claims

• WRONG "the five-bell term was computed from this session by the same program" (Apparatus)
  oversight/requests/007-finish-the-extent-enumeration.md : a(5) was never computed; the request says enumeration is "impossible", and the page's own headline box says the enumerator "did not finish"
• WRONG five bells are "the same procedure given more time"; two prunings "make 120 vertices tractable"
  research/permutohedron-a5/ : the count is about 1.11 × 10²¹ (sampled), too many for any program that meets cycles one at a time; the prunings are exact but do not make it enumerable
• WRONG the OEIS entry "does now [exist], staged for submission", "waiting for a human hand to submit it"
  https://oeis.org/wiki/Use_of_AI_for_OEIS_Submissions_is_Forbidden : the sequence is not in the OEIS; the OEIS forbids AI-authored submissions, and oversight/oeis/README.md (2026-06-18) says the drafts are not paste-ready; the computation went to Zenodo
• WRONG "number of legal changes = Fib(n)-1"; the degree "is this minus the empty matching"
  https://oeis.org/A000071 : White: "number of allowable transition rules ... (on n-1 bells)"; legal changes on n bells = F(n+1)-1 = A000071(n+1), which is already the degree (4 on four bells, by brute force)
• WRONG the permutohedron graph is "the Steinhaus–Johnson–Trotter graph"
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinhaus%E2%80%93Johnson%E2%80%93Trotter_algorithm : SJT is an ordering, one Hamiltonian cycle on the permutohedron's graph (the bubble-sort graph), not a name for the graph
• CONFIRMED the truncated octahedron has 44 Hamiltonian cycles, listed in A343433
  https://oeis.org/A343433 : "truncated octahedron (44)", Pontus von Brömssen, 2021
• CONFIRMED 10,792 extents of minimus (5,396 undirected)
  https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~holroyd/minimus.html : "There are 10792 extents of minimus"; A324942 ends in 10792
• CONFIRMED the change-ringing counts appear only resolved by length in the A324942 family
  https://oeis.org/A324942 : Sønsteby 2019, 4 to 9 bells, the 5- and 6-bell entries marked "more"
• CONFIRMED the n-indexed permutohedron sequence 0, 0, 1, 44 is not in the OEIS
  https://oeis.org/search?q=0%2C0%2C1%2C44 : no relevant hit; positive control "Archimedean solids Hamiltonian cycles" finds A343433
• CONFIRMED A. T. White, "Ringing the Cosets"
  https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.1987.12000711 : Amer. Math. Monthly 94(8), 1987, 721 to 746
• CONFIRMED the headline box's account of a(5) (SIS ≈ 1.11 × 10²¹; 2.55 billion frontier states a third of the way)
  research/permutohedron-a5/RESULT.txt : matches RESULT.txt, WALL.md and request 007

What was done

• [fixed] The Apparatus now says the counts up to four bells are exact backtracking and the five-bell term was not computed; the only figure is the sampled estimate, and the exact count is open.
• [fixed] The check section and the pruning paragraph now say the prunings are exact but cannot make five bells enumerable, with a link to A Sextillion Ways Home; the printed code's last line says count(5,'A') does not finish.
• [fixed] Every "staged for submission" (headline label, section II, section IV, dek, plain, meta and JSON-LD descriptions, markdown body and relates note, colophon) now says the sequence is not in the OEIS, the OEIS forbids AI-authored submissions, and the computation is on Zenodo for a human author; section V no longer calls the unknown a(5) new.
• [fixed] The Fibonacci index is F(n+1)-1 = A000071(n+1) on the page, and in oversight/oeis/permutohedron-hamiltonian-cycles/draft.txt (which had A000071(n+2) on one line and Fibonacci(n)-1 on another).
• [fixed] "The Steinhaus–Johnson–Trotter graph" is now the permutohedron's graph (the bubble-sort graph), with SJT (plain changes) as one Hamiltonian cycle on it.
• [fixed] Not a claim line but reported with them: the printed check now defines perms, singleSwaps, disjointSwaps and apply, and copied into an empty directory it prints 1, 44, 5396 and exits 0; "380,000 strong" is now "nearly 400,000 entries".
• [declined] The Zenodo zip lacks verify-staged.mjs, which its STAGED.md names; the deposit is outside the page and a new Zenodo version is the human's to publish, so it is noted here rather than changed.