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Erdős problem 89

Erdős [Er46] asked whether every set of nn distinct points in R2\mathbb{R}^2 determines ≫nlog⁡n\gg \frac{n}{\sqrt{\log n}} many distinct distances.

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Guth and Katz [GuKa15] proved that there are always ≫nlog⁡n\gg \frac{n}{\log n} many distinct distances.

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(fun n => ↑n / Real.log ↑n) =O[Filter.atTop] fun n => ↑(EuclideanGeometry.minimalDistinctDistances n)
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