 Triangle-packing Ramsey number (source code)

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= Triangle-packing Ramsey number
{title2=$R(tK_3,tK_3)$}

For $t\geq2$, the two-colour Ramsey number for $t$ vertex-disjoint triangles is
$$
R(tK_3,tK_3)=5t.
$$
Every red-blue colouring of $K_{5t}$ therefore contains $t$ vertex-disjoint triangles of one colour, while a colouring of $K_{5t-1}$ can avoid such a packing in both colours.

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