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  "step": "C278",
  "date": "2026-09-24",
  "status": "completed",
  "title": "The finite598/600/602 correspondence",
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  "main_result": "The598/600/602 comparisons have counts4/6/4. Two-year shifts form two finite parity chains and are inverse only on restricted domains.",
  "limits": [
    "Ambient affine identities do not establish a global action on a finite event register.",
    "Numerical fixed points do not fill missing source roles.",
    "598/602 cross-Gear comparisons do not change the600-year same-Gear lifespan."
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  "next_proposed_step": "C279: test the shared endpoint triangle linking the existing8395 and8993 correspondences through the tagged598 source relation.",
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}