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LeanFrontier: a neighbour answers half the question (Field Note 06)
LeanFrontier’s Field Note 06 measures the corpus against Tau Ceti, a second machine-generated Lean 4 library, and finds that machine mathematics does accumulate: Tau Ceti’s internal import density rose monotonically across its history, narrowing the open question to whether accumulation survives without a human-written roadmap. The day also took the human out of the merge path — receiver-accepted submissions now merge themselves, and the first unattended submission opened at 15:39 and merged at 15:56:56 — and admitted conjectures as Prop-valued definitions fingerprinted by value, so a conjecture restating known mathematics is rejected as a duplicate. Three new submissions landed (thue-morse-prouhet-power-sums, stern-brocot-coprime-enumeration, padovan-sequence-sum), taking the corpus to 27 modules, and running the pipeline unattended surfaced four defects that reading had missed. The measurement itself lives in the new lean-corpus-density repository.