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How many convex or concave subsets are contained in an arbitrary set of $n$ real numbers?

This question is closely related to this post. A set $A=\{a_1<a_2<\dots<a_n\} \subset \mathbb R$ is said to be convex if the consecutive differences are non-decreasing, i.e. if $a_{j+1} - a_j ...
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