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Near-Pencil


An arrangement of n>=3 points such that n-1 of them are collinear.


See also

General Position, Ordinary Line, Pencil

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References

Guy, R. K. "Unsolved Problems Come of Age." Amer. Math. Monthly 96, 903-909, 1989.Kelly, L. M. and Moser, W. O. J. "On the Number of Ordinary Lines Determined by n Points." Canad. J. Math. 1, 210-219, 1958.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Near-Pencil." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Near-Pencil.html

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