In Division by Three, Peter G. Doyle and John Horton Conway show, without invoking the Axiom of Choice, that for any sets $A$ and $B$, if there is a bijection between $3 \times A$ and $3 \times B$, then there is a bijection between $A$ and $B$, where $3$ is a set with 3 elements, say $\{0,1,2\}$.