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 D(N) = O(N(2)) was shown recently; no corresponding lower bound is known. In this paper, we refine the upper bound to D(N) = O(N), which seems to be the true order of magnitude, and we show that the average [formula: see text] has upper and lower bounds which are of polynomial growth in N.
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