Challenge 460: Polyglots
How many people speak multiple languages in these scenarios?
(a)
There is a city with a population of exactly 5 million people.
In this city, 9 languages are spoken, and each language has exactly 1 million speakers.
Find the least value of N such that there must exist a pair of languages with at least N speakers in common.
(b)
There is a city with a population of exactly 5 million people.
In this city, 16 languages are spoken, and each language has exactly 1 million speakers.
Find the least value of N such that there must exist a trio of languages with at least N speakers in common.
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