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Fix readme markdown issues - #143

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Post-merge fixes for #143, #146 and #149
bc0e936 
- README: add the missing Recent progress entry for the C_15a upper bound
  2.371177 (arXiv:2608.16884, 17 Aug 2026), merged in #149.
- 15a.md: join the split [DEKMRSZAWB2026] reference line and correct the
  author list (Mehrabian, Ruiz F. J. R., Vassilevska Williams).
- 3a.md: show both the certified and limit values in the [K2026b] Bound
  cell, matching the README convention, and fix a missing cell space.
- README rows 44 and 76: GitHub's inline-math extension does not open a
  "$" span when a word character precedes it, so "degree-$d$" rendered
  literally on github.com. Reword rather than insert spaces around the
  hyphen, which would render worse under MathJax on the Pages site.
  Reported in #143 by @andrew-yoo.
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Thanks — this is a real bug, and I confirmed the diagnosis: GitHub's inline-math extension will not open a $ span when a word character immediately precedes it, so degree-$d$ was rendering literally in the README on github.com while every other row's math rendered fine. I swept the whole table against the live rendered HTML and rows 44 and 76 were indeed the only two affected, so your scope was exactly right.

I went with a reword rather than spacing the hyphen, because degree - $d$ leaves a floating hyphen, and the README is also served through MathJax on the Pages site, where the original never had the bug and the spaced version would render worse. Landed in bc0e936 as:

  • row 44: Maximal number of relevant variables in Boolean functions of degree $d$
  • row 76: Asymptotic line-count constant for smooth surfaces of degree $d$ in $\mathbb{P}^3$ in characteristic $0$

Closing this in favour of that commit, which credits you. Much appreciated — thanks for catching it.

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