TMBR: April 2026

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This Month in Beaver Research for April 2026. This month, a new Cryptid was discovered in BB(6) by Discord user sheep. Two informally proven machines were formalised into Rocq in BB(2,5), and Katelyn Doucette created a visualizer for Fractran space-time diagrams. We also shot below 18 million holdouts for BB(7).

Misc

• Katelyn Doucette completed a visualizer for Fractran space-time diagrams.^[1]

Holdouts

• BB(6)
  • Discord user sheep discovered^[1][2] a new Cryptid, 1RB1LA_0LC0RC_1LE1RD_1RE1RC_1LF0LA_---1LE (bbch), similar to Space Needle. A classification of Cryptids is now being worked on, where this machine, for example, could belong to a class of Needles (along with Space Needle).
  • BMO 8 was added to the Beaver Math Olympiad: 1RB0LD_0RC1RB_0RD0RA_1LE0RD_1LF---_0LA1LA (bbch)
• BB(7)
  • Further filtering by Andrew Ducharme reduced the number of holdouts from 18,036,852 to 17,823,260.^[3] (A 1.18% reduction)
• BB(2,5):
  • On 1 April 2026, Discord user mammillaria shared a Lean formalisation of the BMO 3 problem and its solution, which he created using Aristotle AI. Then mxdys formalised the result in Rocq using LLMs, reducing the holdout count to 67, with 60 informal holdouts.
  • On 2 April 2026, mxdys solved BMO 3 variant 1RB0RA3LA4LA2RA_2LB3LA---4RA3RB (bbch) using an LLM, reducing the formal holdout count to 66. The proofs for BMO 3 and its variant are available at https://github.com/ccz181078/busycoq/blob/BB6/verify/BMO3.v.
• BB(2,6)
  • Andrew Ducharme reduced the number of holdouts from 545,005 to 542,325 via Enumerate.py, a 0.49% reduction.