Let H be a hypergraph. For a k-edge coloring c : E(H) → {1, . . . , k} let f(H, c) be the number of components in the subhypergraph induced by the color class with the least number of components. Let fk(H) be the maximum possible value of f(H, c) ranging over all k-edge colorings of H . If H is the complete graph Kn then, trivially, f1(Kn) = f2(Kn) = 1. In this paper we prove that for n ≥ 6, f3...