== the first moment K_m, and what it refutes == claimed in the first write-up: freezing error = O(e^-k) actual: K_m of order m 2^-m m K_m K_m 2^m / m e^-m / K_m K2_m / K_m 2^-m 8 0.01246565968905032 0.39890111 0.0269109 26.729342 12 0.001107023209609274 0.3778639222 0.00555021 177.39092 16 9.296208177445544e-5 0.3807726869 0.00121055 1458.6032 20 7.408679971943474e-6 0.3884282005 0.000278208 13785.78 24 5.672308245206262e-7 0.396523086 6.65538e-5 143469.4 28 4.213868444511967e-8 0.4039827491 1.64087e-5 1599742.8 32 3.059204368049086e-9 0.4105994598 4.13969e-6 18771803.0 36 2.181446087664208e-10 0.4164106491 1.0633e-6 2.2901921e+8 K_m 2^m / m rises over this range without flattening, so the data fix the order as m 2^-m only up to a slowly varying factor. Either way K_m is Theta(m 2^-m) at worst a log off, hence o(m^2 2^-m), which is what the reduction needs, and hugely larger than e^-m. The last column shows the second moment is smaller by a factor ~2^-m, so the Taylor remainder of eq:freeze-error does not disturb the order.