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Happy ending problem

In mathematics, the "happy ending problem" (so named by Paul Erdős because it led to the marriage of mathematicians George Szekeres and Esther Klein) is the following statement: Theorem—any set of five points in the plane in general position has a subset of four points that form the vertices of a convexquadrilateral.

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