Y by Adventure10, Mango247
In the plane a point
is and a sequence of points
are given. The distances
are
Let
satisfies
Suppose that for every
the distance from the point
to any other point of the sequence is
Determine the exponent
, as large as possible such that for some
independent of 
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![\[r_n \geq Cn^{\beta}, n = 1,2, \ldots\]](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/f/7/f/f7f319a7b43f4cec591a9d210f64de2aad799114.png)