%0 Journal Article %T On the number of ordinary circles %A Hossein Nassajian Mojarrad %A Frank de Zeeuw %J Mathematics %D 2014 %I arXiv %X We prove that any $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^2$, not all on a line or circle, determine at least $\frac{1}{4}n^2-O(n)$ ordinary circles (circles containing exactly three of the $n$ points). The main term of this bound is best possible for even $n$. Our proof relies on a recent result of Green and Tao on ordinary lines. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.8314v1