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The undeserved status of the pigeon-hole principle (EWD 1094)


Right at the moment I was introduced to the pigeon-hole principle, I understood that there was something very special about it, for the Englishman from whom I learned it told it to me under its German name "das Schubfach prinzip". Later I learned that also in other languages it is honoured by a special name.

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