Submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash — Smash Stories track.

There was a file in my repo called run_benchmark_1_22.py.

Not 1 to 24, which is what the harness was written to do. Not 1 to 26, which is how many Mersenne exponents the agents know. Twenty-two. A chart in the README — a2a_latency_times_1_22.png — agreed. At some point, past-me had decided the benchmark ends at 22, committed the evidence, and moved on.

This summer, hunting for a Bug Smash target, I finally asked: why 22?

The setup