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The real projective plane is the set of one-dimensional linear subspaces of . Equivalently,
A projective point is written in homogeneous coordinates . A projective line is the set of projective points whose representatives belong to one fixed two-dimensional linear subspace of . Such a linear subspace is the kernel of a linear map of a nonzero linear functional, so its equation has the form with .
Two distinct projective points have linearly independent representatives . Their linear span has dimension two and hence defines a projective line containing both. Conversely, any two-dimensional linear subspace containing both representatives contains their entire linear span and therefore equals it. Thus exactly one projective line passes through two distinct projective points.

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