jasen Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 Place 6 points along a unit circle, in such a way that when you draw all lines connecting every pair of points, no more than two lines pass through any interior point. How many regions does this divide the unit disk into? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 CaptainEd Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Reveal hidden contents Now I get 31. picture shows additional subdivision of affected regions created by lines connecting to 6th spot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 BobbyGo Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 (edited) Reveal hidden contents 32# of Segments -> X# of Points on Circle -> ZX = 2^(Z-1)Unless you are only counting the segments that are made up of straight sides and not the segments that utilize part of the circle.In that case: 26X = 2^(Z-1) - Z Edited October 21, 2015 by BobbyGo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 jasen Posted October 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 On 10/21/2015 at 1:05 PM, BobbyGo said: Hidden Content wrong! You are trapped. Check again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 CaptainEd Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Reveal hidden contents I can see 30, but not more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 jasen Posted October 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 On 10/22/2015 at 9:19 PM, CaptainEd said: Hidden ContentRight !This case is one of the famous misleading sequence Reveal hidden contents For n=1, you get 1 region.For n=2, you get 2 regions.For n=3, you get 4 regions.For n=4, you get 8 regions.For n=5, you get 16 regions.See a pattern?Yes, but if you conjecture that n points produces 2n-1 regions, you would be wrong!The correct answer is a little more subtle: it is the sum of the first 5 binomial coefficients for power (n-1): 1 = 1 1 1 = 2 1 2 1 = 4 1 3 3 1 = 8 1 4 6 4 1 = 16 1 5 10 10 5 1 = 31 1 6 15 20 15 6 1 = 571 7 21 35 35 21 7 1 = 99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Place 6 points along a unit circle, in such a way that when you draw all lines connecting every pair of points, no more than two lines pass through any interior point. How many regions does this divide the unit disk into?
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