T-226: Couzo's 204 of #670, below Polkovskyi's T-186, since superseded by his own #675 and #678
V0 C0 Upper bound recorded superseded by T-225
One complete rational source certificate of issue #670 reports a finite upper-bound improvement at the exact side it states: , below T-186, the case's house best packing when it was reported. Complete native feasibility outcomes are retained separately; the case's house best packing is unchanged, since Couzo's own later #675 and #678 (T-223) certificates and Daniel's view of #678's packing (T-225) are smaller, and the entry awaits independent review.
The issue states that each bound is strictly smaller than the source's previous published index and a reviewed comparison envelope including deletion and repeated L borders, and the manifest records the author's checker receipts with the source's exact checker verify_bound_certificate.py (Daniel's MIT verifier, modified by Couzo with Codex), pinned here by digest and not run. Those statements are the author's; no source program ran here.
Credit Couzo (https://github.com/franciscouzo/square-packing), whose per-count JSON credits the 204 seed to Polkovskyi (Mishapolk), search job 105412 (hop). The issue keeps every seed, construction and certificate credit in the source's manifest.
Significance, composition and next rung
- Significance
- A finite construction side at 204, 1.88e-5 below T-186, Polkovskyi's refinement that held the case when it was reported, and since superseded by Couzo's own #675 (5.05e-8 lower) and #678 (T-223); a step in his 204 sequence that moves no theorem, S2 as T-198 is. No lower bound or optimum.
- Next rung
- Independently review the retained replay (think-0nse). The entry is superseded on entry at 204: Couzo's own #675 and #678 (T-223) and Daniel's view of #678's packing (T-225) are smaller, and the case holds T-225. The 72 rows beyond the corpus are the source's dated beyond-horizon rows since 22 October 2026, recorded in report order by the backlog ledger (upper-bounds-backlog-20261022).
- Unfinished confirmations
- C3 (think-0nse): Review the retained two-route replay of #670's 204 certificate and enter it as confirming evidence, with sharp controls at 1e-30. Not priced.
- Novelty
- previously-published Present in an identified source
The case
Proven
- exact
Citation record n-204
lowerKarakuş 2026, arXiv corrects Nagamochi 2005 (confirmed T-083)
upperCouzo & Daniel, GitHub (confirmed T-225)
Open
- optimality
The case record
Results on the case
15 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-225
Daniel after Couzo, de Winter, Ellsworth, Levy · evand exact optima 2026-10-05 · packet · register
2026-10-12 established T-155
Exact regularized sides at 59 counts,
5.4e-20to9.9e-15below the ceilings they replaceV3 C3 Upper bound confirmed on this case, superseded by T-225
2026-10-12 published T-162
New packings of 129, 204 and 303 squares, a cut-out and two compositions, each certified exactly
V3 C3 Upper bound confirmed superseded by T-225
Ostashev after Nakajima, Chaoweeraprasit, Daniel, Xu, Levy · Ostashev compositions 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, superseded by T-225
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
2026-10-14 published T-186
Exact certificates at twelve counts from Polkovskyi, tightening the smallest reported there
V3 C3 Upper bound confirmed on this case, superseded by T-225
Polkovskyi after Ostashev, Couzo, PingYou Ltd, Levy · Mishapolk KKT refinements 2026-10-14 · packet · register
2026-10-16 published T-193
Exact algebraic sides at sixteen counts from Daniel, of packings the record credits
V3 C3 Upper bound confirmed on this case, superseded by T-225
Daniel after Xu, Chaoweeraprasit, Ostashev, Couzo, PingYou Ltd, Gupta, Polkovskyi, Levy · Daniel exact current records 2026-10-16 · packet · register
2026-10-17 published T-226 this result
Couzo's 204 of #670, below Polkovskyi's T-186, since superseded by his own #675 and #678
V0 C0 Upper bound recorded superseded by T-225
Couzo after Polkovskyi, Daniel, Levy · Couzo issue 670 2026-10-17 · packet · packet · register
2026-10-18 published T-223
Couzo's smaller packings at 204 and 260, the two in the corpus of issue 678's 85 bounds
V3 C3 Upper bound confirmed superseded by T-225
Couzo after de Winter, Polkovskyi, Daniel, Fang, PingYou Ltd, Levy · Couzo issue 678 2026-10-18 · packet · register
2026-10-18 published T-228
Couzo's 204 of #675, below his #670, since superseded by his #678
V0 C0 Upper bound recorded superseded by T-225
Couzo after Polkovskyi, Daniel, Levy · Couzo issue 675 2026-10-18 · packet · packet · register
2026-10-20 published T-225
Daniel's solved, regularized views at 204, 227, 229 and 260, each the smallest side reported there
V3 C3 Upper bound confirmed
Daniel after Couzo, de Winter, Polkovskyi, Levy · Daniel regularized lists 2026-10-20 · packet · register
2026-10-22 published T-229
Polkovskyi's re-solves of the house packings at 105 and 204, below T-174 and T-225
V0 C0 Upper bound recorded
Polkovskyi after Couzo, Muglich, Daniel, Xu, PingYou Ltd, Levy · Mishapolk issue 719 2026-10-22 · packet · register
Links
- On this site
- Case record, · Frontier row, · T-226 in the results table
On GitHub, at main
- Register
- T-226 in
results.yaml, line 31048 - Evidence
E-couzo-670-certificate-report- Proofs and certificates
- certificate
certificates - Sources
- Couzo issue 670 2026-10-17
- Source packet
resources/web/couzo-issue670-2026-10-17/README.md·resources/web/couzo-issue672-2026-10-17/README.md- Artifacts
9 artifacts and controls
resources/web/couzo-issue670-2026-10-17/README.mdresources/web/couzo-issue670-2026-10-17/acquisition/claims.jsonresources/web/couzo-issue670-2026-10-17/source/certificates/n204.certresources/web/couzo-issue670-2026-10-17/receipts/exact-certification.json.xzresources/web/couzo-issue672-2026-10-17/measure/identity.jsoncampaign/issue-intake/upper-bounds-20261018/README.mddevtools/upper_bound_reports.pytests/test_upper_bound_reports.pytests/test_upper_bound_reports_couzo_670_672_675.py- Case file
frontier/n-204.md(verified lower, verified upper, reported lower, reported upper)