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Combinatorics

proving that a combinatorial object exists by showing that a randomly chosen object has the desired property with positive probability.

In combinatorics, probabilistic method refers to proving that a combinatorial object exists by showing that a randomly chosen object has the desired property with positive probability. This meaning comes from Erdös (1947) in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.[1]

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References

Erdös, P. (1947). Some remarks on the theory of graphs. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 53(4), 292-294. https://doi.org/10.1090/s0002-9904-1947-08785-1

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