pigeonhole principle

  1. If n objects are distributed over m places, and if n>m, then some place receives at least two objects.
  2. If n objects are distributed over n places such that no place receives more than one object, then each place receives exactly one object.
  3. If S and T are sets, and the cardinality of S is greater than the cardinality of T, then there is no injective function from S to T.
  4. If n objects are distributed over m places, and if n<m, then some place receives no object.
  5. If n objects are distributed over n places such that no place receives no object, then each place receives exactly one object.
  6. If S and T are sets, and the cardinality of S is less than the cardinality of T, then there is no surjective function from S to T.

Formally, "there does not exist an injective function whose codomain is smaller than its domain."
Equivalently, "there does not exist a surjective function whose domain is smaller than its codomain."

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