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BP1267 Any two lines intersect, and no three lines share an intersection point vs. not so.
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Left-sorted examples divide the plane into a maximal amount of disconnected white regions by a given number of "cuts". The number of regions in one of these examples will be the nth value of of the Lazy Caterer sequence ( https://oeis.org/A000124 ), where n is the number of lines.

REFERENCE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_caterer%27s_sequence

CROSSREFS

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP1262 BP1263 BP1264 BP1265 BP1266  *  BP1268 BP1269 BP1270 BP1271 BP1272

KEYWORD

precise, allsorted, notso, perfect

AUTHOR

Leo Crabbe

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