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putnam_1974_b1 appears refutable #347

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@wty500

Summary

The Lean formalization of putnam_1974_b1 appears to remain false in the official PutnamBench source, despite the historical fix that changed the regular-pentagon answer predicate to require B > 0.

The adjacent official answer comment is:

fun p ↦ ∃ᵉ (B > 0) (o : Equiv.Perm (Fin 5)),
  ∀ i, dist (p (o i)) (p (o (i + 1))) = B

Observed issue

The predicate appears to permit repeated non-adjacent points. A concrete unit-circle configuration of the shape [A, B, C, A, B], where A, B, and C are vertices of an equilateral triangle on the unit circle, satisfies all five cyclic equal-distance constraints with the positive value B = √3. However, its pairwise-distance sum is strictly below that of another valid unit-circle configuration.

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