We have balls in different colours, balls of each colour. Determine the smallest for which the following holds: if you place the balls in a circle, in any arbitrary way, then there are always adjacent balls which have at least different colours.
NL-BXMO-TST 2018
Dutch BxMO Team Selection Test 2018.
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