A two-coloring of a complete graph of nodes which contains exactly the number of monochromatic forced triangles and no more (i.e., a minimum of where and are the number of red and blue triangles) is called an extremal graph. Goodman (1959) showed that for an extremal graph,
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Schwenk (1972) rewrote the equation in the form
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where is a binomial coefficient and is the floor function.