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The inclusion–exclusion principle, special cases. The inclusion–exclusion principle. Dirichlet’s pigeonhole principle. (If 16 = 5·3+1 socks are distributed among 3 drawers, then at least one drawer must contain at least 6 socks.)
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See e.g. Anderson (1987) or Charalambides (2002).
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Sydsæter, K., Strøm, A., Berck, P. (2010). Combinatorics. In: Economists’ Mathematical Manual. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28518-2_32
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