Skuffeprinsippet

Pigeonhole principle - mathematical lemma that, if ? items are put into ? containers, with ?>?, then at least one container must contain more than one item. Article “Skuffeprinsippet” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 4.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Norwegian) language version.

Since the creation of article “Skuffeprinsippet”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 1181 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 811 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #924 in February 2010
• Global: #2324 in February 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #51906 in December 2008
• Global: #23418 in January 2015

There are 39 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Pigeonhole principle		50.8701
2	French (fr) Principe des tiroirs		36.6936
3	Catalan (ca) Principi de les caselles		30.8776
4	Russian (ru) Принцип Дирихле (комбинаторика)		30.065
5	Chinese (zh) 鴿巢原理		28.7595
6	Polish (pl) Zasada szufladkowa Dirichleta		25.4124
7	Bulgarian (bg) Принцип на Дирихле		24.173
8	Spanish (es) Principio del palomar		22.5208
9	Esperanto (eo) Principo de kuniklo		21.7283
10	Galician (gl) Principio do pombal		21.0234

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Skuffeprinsippet" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pigeonhole principle		3 572 526
2	Russian (ru) Принцип Дирихле (комбинаторика)		526 597
3	Japanese (ja) 鳩の巣原理		405 317
4	Chinese (zh) 鴿巢原理		316 860
5	German (de) Schubfachprinzip		237 098
6	Spanish (es) Principio del palomar		227 667
7	Portuguese (pt) Princípio da casa dos pombos		211 872
8	French (fr) Principe des tiroirs		198 468
9	Polish (pl) Zasada szufladkowa Dirichleta		166 606
10	Korean (ko) 비둘기집 원리		165 492

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Skuffeprinsippet" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pigeonhole principle		10 476
2	Chinese (zh) 鴿巢原理		1 532
3	Russian (ru) Принцип Дирихле (комбинаторика)		1 389
4	Japanese (ja) 鳩の巣原理		1 270
5	Vietnamese (vi) Nguyên lý ngăn kéo Dirichlet		1 156
6	French (fr) Principe des tiroirs		784
7	German (de) Schubfachprinzip		772
8	Persian (fa) اصل لانه کبوتری		632
9	Polish (pl) Zasada szufladkowa Dirichleta		538
10	Spanish (es) Principio del palomar		493

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Skuffeprinsippet" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pigeonhole principle		302
2	German (de) Schubfachprinzip		80
3	French (fr) Principe des tiroirs		79
4	Hebrew (he) עקרון שובך היונים		59
5	Italian (it) Principio dei cassetti		49
6	Spanish (es) Principio del palomar		48
7	Russian (ru) Принцип Дирихле (комбинаторика)		41
8	Chinese (zh) 鴿巢原理		41
9	Polish (pl) Zasada szufladkowa Dirichleta		36
10	Japanese (ja) 鳩の巣原理		33

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Skuffeprinsippet" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pigeonhole principle		3
2	Chinese (zh) 鴿巢原理		2
3	Arabic (ar) مبدأ برج الحمام		1
4	Persian (fa) اصل لانه کبوتری		1
5	Bulgarian (bg) Принцип на Дирихле		0
6	Catalan (ca) Principi de les caselles		0
7	Czech (cs) Dirichletův princip		0
8	Danish (da) Dirichlets skuffeprincip		0
9	German (de) Schubfachprinzip		0
10	Greek (el) Αρχή του περιστερώνα		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Skuffeprinsippet" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Pigeonhole principle		129
2	Polish (pl) Zasada szufladkowa Dirichleta		100
3	French (fr) Principe des tiroirs		51
4	Italian (it) Principio dei cassetti		44
5	Chinese (zh) 鴿巢原理		43
6	Russian (ru) Принцип Дирихле (комбинаторика)		42
7	Ukrainian (uk) Принцип Діріхле		37
8	Japanese (ja) 鳩の巣原理		35
9	Spanish (es) Principio del palomar		30
10	Portuguese (pt) Princípio da casa dos pombos		27

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مبدأ برج الحمام
bg	Bulgarian Принцип на Дирихле
ca	Catalan Principi de les caselles
cs	Czech Dirichletův princip
da	Danish Dirichlets skuffeprincip
de	German Schubfachprinzip
el	Greek Αρχή του περιστερώνα
en	English Pigeonhole principle
eo	Esperanto Principo de kuniklo
es	Spanish Principio del palomar
eu	Basque Usategi printzipio
fa	Persian اصل لانه کبوتری
fi	Finnish Kyyhkyslakkaperiaate
fr	French Principe des tiroirs
gl	Galician Principio do pombal
he	Hebrew עקרון שובך היונים
hr	Croatian Dirichletov princip
hu	Hungarian Skatulyaelv
id	Indonesian Prinsip rumah burung
it	Italian Principio dei cassetti
ja	Japanese 鳩の巣原理
kk	Kazakh Дирихле принципі
ko	Korean 비둘기집 원리
nl	Dutch Duiventilprincipe
no	Norwegian Skuffeprinsippet
pl	Polish Zasada szufladkowa Dirichleta
pt	Portuguese Princípio da casa dos pombos
ro	Romanian Principiul lui Dirichlet
ru	Russian Принцип Дирихле (комбинаторика)
simple	Simple English Pigeonhole principle
sr	Serbian Дирихлеов принцип
sv	Swedish Dirichlets lådprincip
th	Thai หลักรังนกพิราบ
tr	Turkish Güvercin yuvası ilkesi
uk	Ukrainian Принцип Діріхле
ur	Urdu کبوترخانہ اصول
uz	Uzbek Dirixle prinsipi
vi	Vietnamese Nguyên lý ngăn kéo Dirichlet
zh	Chinese 鴿巢原理

Best Rank

Norwegian: #51906 12.2008

Global: #23418 01.2015

Best Rank

Norwegian: #924 02.2010

Global: #2324 02.2012

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