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Oh, they do. It’s just that they skip every paragraph explaining the Dirichlet principle because it’s such a cliché.
Pigeons come with holes in them by default.
But what do you do when M > 6N?
Once I stood under one (unwillingly) and proved it in the most scientific way: getting my head dirty.
False for 0 pidgeons, since you cannot drill a hole into nothing and therefore there isn’t any pidgeons that have at least one hole in them that you have.
N > 1
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Oh, they do. It’s just that they skip every paragraph explaining the Dirichlet principle because it’s such a cliché.
Pigeons come with holes in them by default.
But what do you do when M > 6N?
Once I stood under one (unwillingly) and proved it in the most scientific way: getting my head dirty.
False for 0 pidgeons, since you cannot drill a hole into nothing and therefore there isn’t any pidgeons that have at least one hole in them that you have.
N > 1