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For sure, I understand the limiting factors.  The initial set of points to choose from would never be less than 75.  

The number of points will always be much much greater than the number of subsets.

For instance, my example of 250 points.  6 would definitely be max number of subsets I would ever need. That's a ratio of like 6/250 = 0.025.  

Even just an approximation/ball park would be great.