Let 
 be a norm on 
. We consider the so-called unit distance graph 
 associated with 
: the vertices of 
 are the points of 
, and the edges connect the pairs 
 satisfying 
. We define 
 as the supremum of the densities achieved by independent sets of 
. The number 
 was introduced by Larman and Rogers (1972) as a tool to study the measurable chromatic number 
 of 
 for the Euclidean norm.