Combinatorics MOC

Pigeonhole principle

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

A stronger version states that given π‘š,π‘˜ βˆˆβ„•0, and set 𝐼 of 𝑛 :=π‘˜π‘š +1 items partitioned into sets {𝑆𝑖}𝑛𝑖=1, then |𝑆𝑖| β‰₯π‘˜ +1 for some 1 ≀𝑖 ≀𝑛.

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