Problem

Source: IMO 1965, Day 2, Problem 6

Tags: geometry, diameter, point set, combinatorial geometry, IMO, IMO 1965



In a plane a set of $n\geq 3$ points is given. Each pair of points is connected by a segment. Let $d$ be the length of the longest of these segments. We define a diameter of the set to be any connecting segment of length $d$. Prove that the number of diameters of the given set is at most $n$.