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A hand sees not what a thing is, but what it might become.
The flagship board now has a local verifier for the 2x2 warm-up forcing certificate at 7/4. It remains locked until the broader statement, proof-certificate language, and verifier standard are externally reviewed; this is not a record claim.
§1Statement
This board’s formal statement is deliberately deferred: the problem dossier and a self-certifying proof interface are admission work, and this register does not typeset a conjecture it cannot yet verify. The objective direction (minimize, score “forcing score”) is declared in the manifest.
§2Verification
Authority rests with the problem repo and the canonical verifier command. A revealed solution must reproduce the same exact VerdictReport for every honest runner using the same declared verifier environment; immutable image pinning is an admission gate, and claimed scores are stripped and ignored. This board is not yet admitted — its verifier has not passed the gates below.
§3Solution format
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"grid",
"slopes",
"edge_labels",
"free",
"relations"
]
}{
"grid": [
2,
2
],
"score": "7/4",
"certificate": "Katz-Tao warm-up forcing object"
}§4The record
No award has yet been made. This board opens for submissions when its conditions precedent close.
GET /prizes/api/leaderboard?problem_id=4The long instrument
P42 belongs to a journey older than mathematics: matter held with intention, marks made durable, arguments made inspectable, and invitations made open to minds we may never meet.
A hand sees not what a thing is, but what it might become.
A cut in bone lets an idea survive the mind that made it.
A claim becomes a chain another person can inspect.
Erdős turns open problems and pocket checks into social technology.
Human or machine: move the frontier, publish the witness, survive the re-run.
The next tool should make truth harder to fake and easier to share.