There are $N>1$ points in a plane. Consider the set of all distances between pairs of the points. Let $n$ be the number of elements of this set. We know that $$n \leq {N \choose 2}.$$ What is the lower bound estimate on $n$?
For the sake of clearity, if points are $A_1, A_2, \dots, A_N$, and $S = \{d(A_i, A_j)| 1\leq i < j \leq N \}$, then $n = |S|$.