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Around 1950 Paul Erdős conjectured that every set of more than 2d points in ℝd determines at least one obtuse angle, that is, an angle that is strictly greater than \( \frac{\pi}{2} \). In other words, any set of points in ℝd which only has acute angles (including right angles) has size at most 2d. This problem was posed as a “prize question” by the Dutch Mathematical Society — but solutions were received only for d = 2 and for d = 3.
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Aigner, M., Ziegler, G.M. (2014). Every large point set has an obtuse angle. In: Proofs from THE BOOK. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44205-0_17
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