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  2. Symbolic method (combinatorics) - Wikipedia

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    A structural equation between combinatorial classes thus translates directly into an equation in the corresponding generating functions. Moreover, in the labelled case it is evident from the formula that we may replace () by the atom z and compute the resulting operator, which may then be applied to EGFs. We now proceed to construct the most ...

  3. Combinatorics - Wikipedia

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    Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and as an end to obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures.It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many applications ranging from logic to statistical physics and from evolutionary biology to computer science.

  4. Hockey-stick identity - Wikipedia

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    Note that there are only people without numbers, meaning we must choose at least one person with a number in order to form a committee of + people. In general, in case x {\displaystyle x} , person x {\displaystyle x} is on the committee and persons 1 , 2 , 3 , … , x − 1 {\displaystyle 1,2,3,\dots ,x-1} are not on the committee.

  5. Combination - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a combination is a selection of items from a set that has distinct members, such that the order of selection does not matter (unlike permutations).For example, given three fruits, say an apple, an orange and a pear, there are three combinations of two that can be drawn from this set: an apple and a pear; an apple and an orange; or a pear and an orange.

  6. Ramsey theory - Wikipedia

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    Ramsey theory, named after the British mathematician and philosopher Frank P. Ramsey, is a branch of the mathematical field of combinatorics that focuses on the appearance of order in a substructure given a structure of a known size. Problems in Ramsey theory typically ask a question of the form: "how big must some structure be to guarantee ...

  7. Twelvefold way - Wikipedia

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    In combinatorics, the twelvefold way is a systematic classification of 12 related enumerative problems concerning two finite sets, which include the classical problems of counting permutations, combinations, multisets, and partitions either of a set or of a number.

  8. Combinatorial modelling - Wikipedia

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    The following table shows the operations that the model provides to get the number of different ways of distributing the objects for each of the distributions: Distribution of k objects into n boxes

  9. Rule of division (combinatorics) - Wikipedia

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    In combinatorics, the rule of division is a counting principle. It states that there are n/d ways to do a task if it can be done using a procedure that can be carried out in n ways, and for each way w, exactly d of the n ways correspond to the way w. In a nutshell, the division rule is a common way to ignore "unimportant" differences when ...