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Five points determine a conic

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The statement "five points determine a conic" refers to a fundamental result in projective geometry. It states that given any five points in a plane, no three of which are collinear, there exists a unique conic section (which can be an ellipse, parabola, hyperbola, or degenerate conic) that passes through all five points.

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