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Graph Coloring · Challenge problem

A conference has 22 keynote speakers, who co-present one joint session together, plus 66 breakout facilitators. Each facilitator has a separate private planning meeting with EACH keynote speaker individually (1212 such meetings), in addition to the keynotes' own joint session (11 meeting), 1313 meetings in all. No person may be in two meetings during the same time period. What is the minimum number of periods needed to schedule every meeting?