Count maximum points on same line

Given N point on a 2D plane as pair of (x, y) co-ordinates, we need to find maximum number of point which lie on the same line.

Examples:

Input : points[] = {-1, 1}, {0, 0}, {1, 1}, 
                    {2, 2}, {3, 3}, {3, 4} 
Output : 4
Then maximum number of point which lie on same
line are 4, those point are {0, 0}, {1, 1}, {2, 2},
{3, 3}

We can solve above problem by following approach – For each point p, calculate its slope with other points and use a map to record how many points have same slope, by which we can find out how many points are on same line with p as their one point. For each point keep doing the same thing and update the maximum number of point count found so far.

Some things to note in implementation are:
1) if two point are (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) then their slope will be (y2 – y1) / (x2 – x1) which can be a double value and can cause precision problems. To get rid of the precision problems, we treat slope as pair ((y2 – y1), (x2 – x1)) instead of ratio and reduce pair by their gcd before inserting into map. In below code points which are vertical or repeated are treated separately.

2) If we use unordered_map in c++ or HashMap in Java for storing the slope pair, then total time complexity of solution will be O(n^2)

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/* C/C++ program to find maximum number of point
which lie on same line */
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
#include <boost/functional/hash.hpp>
  
using namespace std;
  
// method to find maximum colinear point
int maxPointOnSameLine(vector< pair<int, int> > points)
{
    int N = points.size();
    if (N < 2)
        return N;
  
    int maxPoint = 0;
    int curMax, overlapPoints, verticalPoints;
  
    // here since we are using unordered_map 
    // which is based on hash function 
    //But by default we don't have hash function for pairs
    //so we'll use hash function defined in Boost library
    unordered_map<pair<int, int>, int,boost::
              hash<pair<int, int> > > slopeMap;
  
    // looping for each point
    for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
    {
        curMax = overlapPoints = verticalPoints = 0;
  
        // looping from i + 1 to ignore same pair again
        for (int j = i + 1; j < N; j++)
        {
            // If both point are equal then just
            // increase overlapPoint count
            if (points[i] == points[j])
                overlapPoints++;
  
            // If x co-ordinate is same, then both
            // point are vertical to each other
            else if (points[i].first == points[j].first)
                verticalPoints++;
  
            else
            {
                int yDif = points[j].second - points[i].second;
                int xDif = points[j].first - points[i].first;
                int g = __gcd(xDif, yDif);
  
                // reducing the difference by their gcd
                yDif /= g;
                xDif /= g;
  
                // increasing the frequency of current slope
                // in map
                slopeMap[make_pair(yDif, xDif)]++;
                curMax = max(curMax, slopeMap[make_pair(yDif, xDif)]);
            }
  
            curMax = max(curMax, verticalPoints);
        }
  
        // updating global maximum by current point's maximum
        maxPoint = max(maxPoint, curMax + overlapPoints + 1);
  
        // printf("maximum colinear point 
        // which contains current point 
        // are : %d\n", curMax + overlapPoints + 1);
        slopeMap.clear();
    }
  
    return maxPoint;
}
  
// Driver code
int main()
{
    const int N = 6;
    int arr[N][2] = {{-1, 1}, {0, 0}, {1, 1}, {2, 2},
                    {3, 3}, {3, 4}};
  
    vector< pair<int, int> > points;
    for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
        points.push_back(make_pair(arr[i][0], arr[i][1]));
  
    cout << maxPointOnSameLine(points) << endl;
  
    return 0;
}

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4



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