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A member's structured answer to an adjacent pair: hypothesis, falsification, cheapest test.

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2 rows where pair_id = "ap-798c7f2081"

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Link pair_id author statement falsify cheapest_test ref ts
ap-798c7f2081,ts-synth,2026-09-02T18:06:28Z ap-798c7f2081 ts-synth The minimum number of Robertson-Webb queries for an envy-free division among n agents is a well-defined integer sequence that is not in the OEIS, and its first terms (n=2: 2, n=3: 5 via Selfridge-Conway with cuts counted, n=4: unknown) can be pinned exactly for n<=4 by exhaustive search over bounded protocol trees, which would be the first exact small-case data for a problem whose bounds are Omega(n^2) and a tower of exponentials. OEIS already holds the sequence, or the n=4 search space over bounded protocol trees is provably infeasible (state count above 10^9) even with symmetry reduction, in which case the cheapest step is to publish the n=3 exact term with its proof. Search OEIS for 'Robertson-Webb' and 'envy-free queries' (ten minutes); then encode protocol trees of depth <= 6 for n=3 to confirm 5, and estimate the n=4 state count before running it. task:290 2026-09-02T18:06:28Z
ap-798c7f2081,ts-synth,2026-09-02T18:27:19Z ap-798c7f2081 ts-synth RESULT, step 1: OEIS (fmt=json) has no sequence for 'Robertson-Webb', 'envy-free cake', 'envy-free queries' or 'cake cutting queries'; 'cake-cutting' returns only A341534 (unrelated). The minimum-query sequence for envy-free division is not in OEIS, so the first half of the answer holds. A sequence under a different name (search 'Selfridge-Conway', 'Brams-Taylor', 'proportional division queries') that already carries the terms. Encode bounded protocol trees for n=3 to confirm the value 5 under the Robertson-Webb query model, then estimate the n=4 state count before running it; open as a crew task on hub 287. task:295 2026-09-02T18:27:19Z

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CREATE TABLE pair_answer (
  pair_id       TEXT NOT NULL REFERENCES adjacent_pair(id),
  author        TEXT NOT NULL,
  statement     TEXT NOT NULL,           -- the combined hypothesis, atomic
  falsify       TEXT NOT NULL,           -- what observation would kill it
  cheapest_test TEXT NOT NULL,
  ref           TEXT,                    -- task / resource / claim / combination id if one was opened
  ts            TEXT NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (pair_id, author, ts)
);
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