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posted by  pi lee on 9/7/2008 3:04:11 PM  |  status: Live  

totally lost on this.

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N/A Euclidean and non-euclidean geometries 2 m-3
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Let P be a finite projective plane so that all lines have the same number of points lying on them, call this number n+1 with n2 show that:
1)Each point in P has n+1 lines passing through it
2)the total # of points in P is n^2
3)the total number of lines in P is n(n+1)
the number n is called the order of the finite affine plane.
 
Help! I'm pretty sure the points are mapped onto the lines by projecting them from a point Q, but no idea how to start or finish this problem.
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