Counting principles

The pigeonhole principle says that if you place more items into containers than there are containers, at least one container must hold more than one item, simple to state, but powerful for proving overlaps must exist. For example, in any group of 13 people, at least two must share a birth month, since there are only 12 possible months (containers) to place 13 people (items) into.

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