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Originating problem: Asymptotic upper bound for lines containing exactly four points
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OPEN as of 2026-07-31. The maintained Erdős Problems database at commit 8138974387d9030542daabe67faaa33eff9356f8 lists Problem 101 as open. The unresolved remainder is the full displayed statement.
A complete resolution must satisfy this condition: Give a rigorous proof or counterexample that completely resolves this statement: Erdős Problem 101: For a finite set $S$ of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^2$, let a line be called determined if it is the affine span of two distinct points of $S$. For a positive integer $k$, let $\mathcal{L}_k(S)$ denote the set of determined lines that contain exactly $k$ points of $S$. A set $S$ is said to be 5-noncollinear if no line contains five or more points of $S$. Define $f(n)$ to be the supremum of $|\mathcal{L}_4(S)|$ over all 5-noncollinear sets $S \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ with $|S| = n$. Determine whether $f(n) = o(n^2)$ as $n \to \infty$.
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