On a combinatorial problem by Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn and Paul Erdős (source code)

= On a combinatorial problem by Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn and Paul Erdős
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By <Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn> and <Paul Erdős>. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen51,1277–1279 (also Indagationes Mathematicae10,421–423). Primary scan: https://users.renyi.hu/~p_erdos/1948-01.pdf

Theorem1 gives the finite unique-pair line-count bound and identifies the near-pencil and projective-plane equality configurations.