Color every point of the plane so that any two points at distance exactly 1 receive different colors. What is the smallest number of colors for which this is possible? It is known that the answer is 5, 6 or 7. Determine it.
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The Erdős–Szekeres happy ending conjecture
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Let be the smallest number such that any points in the plane, no three on a line, include points that are the vertices of a convex polygon. Prove or disprove that for every .
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Prove that no packing of equal balls in three-dimensional space has average density greater than , the density of the familiar cannonball stacking (face-centered cubic packing).
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