No-three-in-line $D(43)$

86 points of the 43 by 43 grid with no three on a line

The largest number of points of the $43 \times 43$ grid with no three on a line.

Value: $86$ Verified lower bound

Verified bounds

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Lower bound: $86$ Checked construction
no-three-in-line-43-lower-86, submitted by daniel-munro, 2026-11-05
[construction from The No-Three-in-Line Problem, Achim Flammenkamp, 2026-10-28]
Upper bound: None yet

Updates from the literature

Upper bound: $86$
Trivial or easy according to the secondary source.
[via No-three-in-line problem - Wikipedia]
1998-01 Lower bound: $86$
A. Flammenkamp, Progress in the no-three-in-line problem, II, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 81 (1998) 108-113.
[via The No-Three-in-Line Problem, Achim Flammenkamp, 2026-10-28]