[seqfan] A new version of the counting intersection points of chords in a circle problem

Neil Sloane njasloane at gmail.com
Sat Aug 5 17:12:47 CEST 2017


The classic problem is, put n equally spaced points around a circle;
draw all the chords; how many intersection points are there? Solved by
Poonen and Rubinstein, see A006561.

In the new problem A290447, the points are on a line.

It should be solvable by the same methods.

Best regards
Neil

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