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How many colours do we need to colour the countries of a map in such a way that adjacent countries are coloured differently? How many days have to be scheduled for committee meetings of a parliament if every committee intends to meet for one day and some members of parliament serve on several committees? How can we find a school timetable of minimum total length, based on the information of how often each teacher has to teach each class?
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Diestel, R. (2017). Colouring. In: Graph Theory. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 173. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53622-3_5
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