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::It is impossible to have 4 dishonest sailors unless at least 3 sailors are dishonest. So I suggest the case for 4 dishonest sailors is a proper subset of the set of solutions for 3 dishonest sailors which I shall represent as 60+g*320. I try each of these values against my verification procedure which returns false until g=23 giving the answer:
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