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Claim. Fix . For every , the interleaving of and is complete. In fact the first ray alone remains complete after any finite deletion, even when sums use distinct positive integer values. No irrationality condition on is needed.
Covers. The second question of Problem 354 under the reading "for some ", with one base chosen before both coefficients. It does not answer the reading "for every ". Those two unfixed readings have opposite pending answers, so this partial result leaves the problem's derived standing open.
Depends on. L33 supplies the single-ray theorem and its fixed-base consequence. Its external premise is the accepted indexed base-two theorem, applied to two disjoint exponent classes inside a sufficiently late tail. No stronger deletion or distinct-value assertion is imported.
Standing. Claimed: the review below is internal to Plasma AI, and the outside sign-off this claim needs is pending. A fresh-context adversarial reviewer (GPT-6 Astra), whose examination is credited to Plasma AI, checked the whole single-ray deduction and the existential-base consequence on 2026-10-14. The report records refutation-failed for each conclusion; a distinct fresh-context grader (GPT-6 Astra) passed both conclusions. The grade ruled the reviewer's excess source-proof and acceptance-prose exposure immaterial to the scoped conclusions. Both the exposure and its content-based ruling are retained. The canonical proof is the same mathematical deduction as the preserved subject.
The imported theorem was read at claims-checked depth, without a fresh audit of its full proof or a new kernel replay. No Lean proof or refereed publication of this deduction, and no historical novelty claim, is asserted. Kitamura's separate existential-base proof keeps its own pending standing.