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abhgh · 2020-07-13 · Original thread
The version I had come across was "all billiard balls have the same color" in Liu's Discrete Mathematics [1]. It is an exercise problem in one of the chapters.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Discrete-Mathematics-C-Liu/d...

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