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**Andrew Ducharme has reduced the number of holdouts from 19,303,801 to '''18,254,545''' (a 5.44% reduction) using the newly released mxdys FAR decider. | **Andrew Ducharme has reduced the number of holdouts from 19,303,801 to '''18,254,545''' (a 5.44% reduction) using the newly released mxdys FAR decider. | ||
*BB(2,6): | *[[BB(2,6)]]: | ||
**Andrew Ducharme continued reducing the number of holdouts, from 558,039 to 556,814 (a 0.22% reduction) using the newly released mxdys FAR decider. | **Andrew Ducharme continued reducing the number of holdouts, from 558,039 to 556,814 (a 0.22% reduction) using the newly released mxdys FAR decider. | ||
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**Andrew Ducharme found a machine nonhalting on [https://discord.com/channels/960643023006490684/1259770421046411285/1471227102844944510 11 Feb] via the newly released mxdys FAR decider. This was verified in Rocq by mxdys [https://discord.com/channels/960643023006490684/1259770421046411285/1471228798505582602 the same day]. | |||
**mxdys [https://discord.com/channels/960643023006490684/1259770421046411285/1471229409829847111 announced another TM proven the same day], which turns out to be a translated cycler. | |||
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This Month in Beaver Research for February 2026.
Misc
TODO: independence from Peano (Legion) (see Logical independence)
Talks
- Tristan Stérin announced that the paper "Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver value" was accepted for the 58th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2026), and there would be a talk at the event in Salt Lake City in June 2026
Holdouts
- BB(7):
- Andrew Ducharme has reduced the number of holdouts from 19,303,801 to 18,254,545 (a 5.44% reduction) using the newly released mxdys FAR decider.
- BB(2,6):
- Andrew Ducharme continued reducing the number of holdouts, from 558,039 to 556,814 (a 0.22% reduction) using the newly released mxdys FAR decider.
- BB(2,5):
- Andrew Ducharme found a machine nonhalting on 11 Feb via the newly released mxdys FAR decider. This was verified in Rocq by mxdys the same day.
- mxdys announced another TM proven the same day, which turns out to be a translated cycler.