Add bridge-derived census (n=6..10) to the disjunction section

Cross-tabulate bridge-derived vs intertwining-tree coverage: the
bridge-derived share falls from 100% (n=6) to 62.7% (n=10), the
disjunction never relies on it alone, and the "neither" column is
identically zero throughout.

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@@ -492,6 +492,45 @@ $n = 21$ and there are exactly $6$ of them. Below $n = 21$ every
maximal planar graph is an intertwining tree, which is why the
disjunction holds trivially in that range.
The intertwining-tree disjunct therefore carries the conjecture by itself
for all small $n$, but this leaves open how much of the load the
bridge-derived disjunct is independently able to bear. To measure that we
classified every triangulation at $6 \leq n \leq 10$ as bridge-derived or
not, deciding bridge-derivedness exhaustively: a triangulation is
bridge-derived iff some valid parity partition admits an Even Level Graph
in its backward bridge-switch orbit (a search feasible only at these
sizes). Table~\ref{tab:bridge-census} records the result. Three features
stand out. First, the bridge-derived disjunct is substantive but far from
universal on its own: its share of all triangulations falls steadily, from
all of them at $n = 6$ to under two-thirds by $n = 10$. Second, the
disjunction never relies on it in this range -- the \emph{intertwining
only} column counts triangulations covered by the tree disjunct alone, and
it grows, while no triangulation here is bridge-derived without also being
an intertwining tree. Third, and consistent with the conjecture, the
\emph{neither} column is identically zero throughout.
\begin{table}[ht]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{cccccc}
$n$ & triangulations & bridge-derived & \% & intertwining only & neither \\\hline
$6$ & $2$ & $2$ & $100.0$ & $0$ & $0$ \\
$7$ & $5$ & $4$ & $80.0$ & $1$ & $0$ \\
$8$ & $14$ & $12$ & $85.7$ & $2$ & $0$ \\
$9$ & $50$ & $36$ & $72.0$ & $14$ & $0$ \\
$10$ & $233$ & $146$ & $62.7$ & $87$ & $0$ \\
\end{tabular}
\caption{Bridge-derived census for $6 \leq n \leq 10$. \emph{bridge-derived}
counts plane-triangulation iso classes that are bridge-derived level graphs
of some Even Level Graph, decided by exhaustive backward bridge-switch
search over all valid parity partitions; \% is its fraction of all
triangulations. \emph{intertwining only} counts those that are intertwining
trees but not bridge-derived; \emph{neither} counts those covered by no
disjunct. Every triangulation in this range is an intertwining tree, and
every bridge-derived one is too, so bridge-derived $\subseteq$ intertwining
tree here.}
\label{tab:bridge-census}
\end{table}
\subsection*{The boundary case $n = 21$}
The first triangulations that are \emph{not} intertwining trees are the