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Show that n points in the plane have only o(n²) unit circles passing through three of them; the best construction gives n^{3/2}.
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Determine the largest fraction of triples on n points with no 4-set covered by all its triples; Turán conjectured 5/9.
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Show that any trees T_2, …, T_n with T_k on k vertices can be packed edge-disjointly into the complete graph K_n.
Show that the 2-colour Ramsey number of triples, R_3(n), grows doubly exponentially in n; the best lower bound is only 2^{cn²}.
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Find the limit of F(N)/√N, where F(N) is the fewest marks on a ruler of length N that measures every distance; it lies in [1.56, √3].
Decide whether, for every t, some number appears as a binomial coefficient C(n,k) with k ≤ n/2 in exactly t ways.
Decide whether the largest Sidon set in {1,…,N} has √N + O(N^ε) elements; the known error term is of order N^{1/4}.
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Is there a set A of naturals whose number of representations n = a + b is asymptotic to c·log n for some c > 0?
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Find the constant c in R(3,k) ~ c·k²/log k; it is now known to lie between 1/2 and 1.
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Pin down the constant c ≈ 0.38 such that every split of {1,…,2N} into equal halves has a difference occurring cN times.
Prove that any 2^{n−2}+1 points in general position in the plane contain a convex n-gon; open from n = 7 on.
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Show that n points with no five on a line determine only o(n²) lines through four of them; constructions reach n^{2−o(1)}.
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Construct explicit graphs on n vertices with no clique or independent set of size c·log n, matching Erdős's random graphs.
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Determine the largest r-uniform hypergraph on n vertices with no k disjoint edges; Erdős conjectured one of two simple families wins.
Construct an infinite Sidon set with at least N^{1/2−ε} elements up to N for every ε > 0, or show that none exists.
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Show that some vertex of every convex n-gon has at least ⌊n/2⌋ distinct distances to the other vertices, or find a counterexample.
Show that a subgraph of the n-cube with no 4-cycle has at most about half of the cube's edges; the best bound is 0.60318.
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