The Number of N-Point Digital Discs

  • Authors:
  • Martin N. Huxley;Jovisa Zunic

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A digital disc is the set of all integer points inside some given disc. Let {\cal D}_{N} be the number of different digital discs consisting of N points (different up to translation). The upper bound {\cal D}_{N} = {\cal O}(N^{2}) was shown recently; no corresponding lower bound is known. In this paper, we refine the upper bound to {\cal D}_{N} = {\cal O}(N), which seems to be the true order of magnitude, and we show that the average \overline{\cal D}_{N} = \left({\cal D}_{1} + {\cal D}_{2} + \ldots + {\cal D}_{N}\right)/N has upper and lower bounds which are of polynomial growth in N.