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An improbable game of darts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2016
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The general utility of the ‘pigeon hole principle’ (that if n + 1 pigeons are placed in n boxes one of the boxes contains more than one pigeon!) is neatly illustrated by the problem of showing that:
If seven darts land on a dartboard in any configuration whatsoever, there will always be two darts which are not more than a distance of one radius apart.
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