Count of parallelograms in a plane

Given some points on a plane, which are distinct and no three of them lie on the same line. We need to find number of Parallelograms with the vertices as the given points. Examples:

Input : points[] = {(0, 0), (0, 2), (2, 2), (4, 2), 
                                   (1, 4), (3, 4)}
Output : 2
Two Parallelograms are possible by choosing above
given point as vertices, which are shown in below 
diagram.

We can solve this problem by using a special property of parallelograms that diagonals of a parallelogram intersect each other in the middle. So if we get such a middle point which is middle point of more than one line segment, then we can conclude that a parallelogram exists, more accurately if a middle point occurs x times, then diagonals of possible parallelograms can be chosen in ^xC₂ ways, i.e. there will be x*(x-1)/2 parallelograms corresponding to this particular middle point with a frequency x. So we iterate over all pair of points and we calculate their middle point and increase frequency of middle point by 1. At the end, we count number of parallelograms according to the frequency of each distinct middle point as explained above. As we just need frequency of middle point, division by 2 is ignored while calculating middle point for simplicity. 

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Time Complexity: O(n²logn), as we are iterating through two loops up to n and using a map as well which takes logn.
Auxiliary Space: O(n)

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