Combinatorics MOC

Pigeonhole principle

The pigeonhole principle is the idea that if 𝑛 items are put into 𝑚 containers with 𝑛 >𝑚, then at least one of said containers must contain multiple items.

A stronger version states that given 𝑚,𝑘 0, and set 𝐼 of 𝑛 :=𝑘𝑚 +1 items partitioned into sets {𝑆𝑖}𝑛𝑖=1, then |𝑆𝑖| 𝑘 +1 for some 1 𝑖 𝑛.

Analogues


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