Points and Lines

geometry
Published

January 1, 2023

H/T to Ashutosh.

[Spoiler Alert] This turns out to be a well-known theorem.

Show that every finite set of points in the Euclidean plane has a line that passes through exactly two of the points or a line that passes through all of them.

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