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On 31 Oct Manjul Bhargava (Princeton) posted on Hexagon an unconditional positive lower proportion for every such curve. The argument uses Cureton–Thorner's zero-free half-plane and 'the marked Type II estimates of OpenAI'. Per the provenance statement, handwritten notes were turned into LaTeX 'with additional writing and details added by both the author and GPT-6'. GPT-6 also helped formalise the deduction in Lean, with the analytic inputs left as hypotheses. 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