T-114: , from a SQUISH rational packing
V3 C3 Upper bound confirmed superseded by T-173
Chaoweeraprasit (itsnaka), using SQUISH, establishes <=
7250614903299225/562949953421312, about 12.8796793733329640, in the supplement to
jlevy/squares#401 on 7 October 2026, about 0.0019874 below the earlier reported upper bound
here. Each certificate supplies rational centres and rational half-angle parameters for
closed unit squares in the rational container.
The claim establishes only upper bounds, with no optimality or rigidity conclusion. The
author credits Ellsworth’s records and tools and states human-directed Claude Opus 5.5
assistance.
This repository confirmed the upper bounds by independently re-implemented exact-rational
checks: sqpack.witness.exact_verify and devtools.check_rational_witness_independent accept
every pair and container wall of each certificate, with both geometric controls rejected.
Significance, composition and next rung
- Significance
- New packings reduce the recorded upper bounds at by about 0.00199, substantive case-bound improvements. They settle no exact optimum and introduce no proved general packing theorem.
- Composition
- Each source rational triple is converted without rounding to exact unit-square corners, at the source’s unchanged rational side. Both native exact_verify and the independently written rational-corner checker decide every pair and wall; the source-to-witness conversion and complete scope are accepted by the retained mathematical review. The wrapper binds the receipt to the decided witness, checks the full roster and upward decimal display, and replays both geometric controls. This is an independently re-implemented confirmation, sharing no verification code with the producer; the two first-party routes share the converted corners, YAML and Python rational arithmetic.
- Next rung
- V4 and C4 need a retained human oversight record for the claim, certificate, assumptions, two deciding implementations, controls and accepted adversarial AI reviews. The two separately prompted project AI reviews are retained; human oversight is not. Rung 5 needs a proof-assistant formalization with the open replay and two human expert reviews. No local or global optimality claim is made by these upper-bound certificates.
- Novelty
- previously-published Present in an identified source
The case
As published
Proven
- exact
Citation record n-153
lowerKarakuş 2026, arXiv corrects Nagamochi 2005 (confirmed T-083)
upperPingYou Ltd & Mishapolk, GitHub (confirmed T-173)
Open
- optimality
The case record
Results on the case
14 results in the register on , oldest first, each with what it established and how it stands now.
2005 published T-007
for
V0 C1 Lower bound incomplete on this case, superseded by T-083 and T-180 (reported)
2026-09-04 published T-085
Nagamochi 2005, Lemma 1 is false for every container with and
V3 C3 Correction confirmed
Karakuş; Vlasenko · Karakuş 2026 · chelokot Nagamochi counterexample 2026 · packet · register
2026-09-29 published T-083
for every nonsquare
V3 C3 Lower bound confirmed
Karakuş · Karakuş 2026 · source · register
2026-10-05 published T-101
Exact certificates of 77 catalogue packings:
s(n) ≤ S',1.2e-16to9.8e-15above each sideV3 C3 Upper bound confirmed on this case, superseded by T-173
Daniel after Couzo, de Winter, Ellsworth, Levy · evand exact optima 2026-10-05 · packet · register
2026-10-07 published T-114 this result
, from a SQUISH rational packing
V3 C3 Upper bound confirmed superseded by T-173
Chaoweeraprasit after Ellsworth · SQUISH n153 2026-10-07 · packet · packet · register
2026-10-08 published T-125
Complete rational construction reports at 25 counts
V3 C3 Upper bound confirmed superseded by T-173
2026-10-08 published T-127
Fourteen rational refinements, seventeen complete source cases
V3 C3 Upper bound confirmed on this case, superseded by T-173
Gupta after Chaoweeraprasit, Daniel · Gupta rational refinements 2026-10-08 · packet · register
2026-10-09 published T-136
Seventeen exact rational packings from SQUISH's third request
V3 C3 Upper bound confirmed on this case, superseded by T-173
Chaoweeraprasit after Couzo, Xu, Göbel, Schadt, Ellsworth, Hajba, Levy · SQUISH third request 2026-10-09 · packet · register
2026-10-10 published T-146
Exact rational certificates at fifteen counts from Daniel's regularized record lists
V3 C3 Upper bound confirmed on this case, superseded by T-173
Daniel after Xu, Chaoweeraprasit, Polkovskyi, Levy · Daniel regularized lists 2026-10-10 · packet · register
2026-10-11 published T-148
A packing of 153 squares built from Xu's packing of 70, its contacts reclosed at a new angle
V3 C3 Upper bound confirmed superseded by T-173
PingYou Ltd after Xu, Daniel, Levy · PingYou n153 certificate 2026-10-11 · packet · register
2026-10-12 published T-166
A tighter rational realization of PingYou Ltd's packing of 153 squares
V3 C3 Upper bound confirmed superseded by T-173
PingYou Ltd after Xu, Daniel, Levy · PingYou n153 refinement 2026-10-12 · packet · register
2026-10-12 published T-173
Polkovskyi's packings of 153 and 207 squares, each below the earlier refinements there
V3 C3 Upper bound confirmed
Polkovskyi after Xu, Chaoweeraprasit, Levy · Mishapolk exact certificates 2026-10-12 · packet · register
2026-10-13 published T-174
Tighter certificates at 68 counts from PingYou Ltd, of others' packings and its own
V3 C3 Upper bound confirmed on this case, pending adoption
PingYou Ltd after Friedman, Ellsworth, Daniel, Xu, Barnett, Couzo, Ostashev, Chaoweeraprasit, Gupta, Fang, Polkovskyi, Levy · PingYou PR 574 certificates 2026-10-13 · packet · register
2026-10-13 published T-180
Closed-form lower bound for every non-square , reported
V0 C1 Lower bound reviewed
Hosono · wand125 closed form 2026-10-14 · packet · packet · register
Links
- On this site
- Case record, · Frontier row, · T-114 in the results table
On GitHub, at main
- Register
- T-114 in
results.yaml, line 12227 - Evidence
E-squish-n153-2026-10-07-report·E-squish-n153-2026-10-07-exact-replay- Proofs and certificates
- certificate
facts· certificatesquish-401-2026 - Sources
- SQUISH n153 2026-10-07 (its own site, retained copy)
- Source packet
resources/web/squish-401-2026-10-07/README.md·resources/web/squish-401-update-2026-10-07/README.md- Artifacts
16 artifacts and controls
resources/web/squish-401-2026-10-07/README.mdresources/web/squish-401-2026-10-07/facts/n-153.json.gzresources/web/squish-401-2026-10-07/acquisition/sources.jsonresources/web/squish-401-update-2026-10-07/facts/n-153.json.gzresources/web/squish-401-update-2026-10-07/acquisition/n153-comparison.jsonresources/web/squish-401-2026-10-07/acquisition/frontier-comparison.jsonwitnesses/squish-401-2026/n-153-rational.yaml.gzresources/web/squish-401-2026-10-07/receipts/certification.json.gzresources/web/squish-401-2026-10-07/receipts/negative-controls.jsondevtools/squish_upper_bound_packets.pydocs/project/reviews/review-2026-10-06-squish-upper-bound-packings.mddocs/project/reviews/review-2026-10-06-squish-import-correctness.mdresources/web/squish-401-2026-10-07/receipts/negative-controls.jsontests/test_squish_upper_bound_packets.pytests/test_squish_upper_bound_receipts.pytests/test_import_half_angle_witness.py- Case file
frontier/n-153.md(verified lower, verified upper, reported lower, reported upper)