The Minimum Number Of Subsets

Find the last three digits of the smallest positive integer n n with the following property:

Let S \mathcal{S} be any set containing n n elements. Partition the 5 5 element subsets of S \mathcal{S} into two partitions. Then, at least one of the partitions must contain 2014 2014 pairwise disjoint sets.

Details and assumptions

  • Sets A 1 , A 2 , , A k A_1, A_2, \cdots , A_k are called pairwise disjoint if A i A j = 0 |A_i \cap A_j| = 0 for all i j . i \neq j.

  • This condition must hold for all sets S \mathcal{S} containing n n elements and all partitions of its 5 5 element subsets.

  • This problem is a generalization of an old USAMO problem.

  • If the last three digits of n n are 012 , 012, enter 12 12 as your answer.


The answer is 83.

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