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There's a famous problem "How many regions n lines could make at most in euclidean plane?"

I solved it into below recurrent relation:

$r_n = 2(r_{n-1} - _{n-1}\mathbf C_2) + _{n-1}\mathbf C_2$

embeded intuition in above relation is simple.

Line makes 2 regions when meets one region.

however there's some region that my additional line doesn't meet :

which are they? the answer is the combinations of each line that my additional line has already met.

That's it.

But my problem is.. I don't know how to make this recurrence into formula.

I thought if the coefficient of each $r_n$, $r_{n-1}$ is different it's impossible, however, there's already exsiting formula for this region division.

Any theoretical ground about how to formularize the recurrence relation?

Beverlie
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