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The Inclusion-exclusion Principle is helpful for counting the elements of the union of overlapping sets. We consider a few basic examples.
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Andreescu, T., Feng, Z. (2004). Inclusion-Exclusion Principle. In: A Path to Combinatorics for Undergraduates. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-8154-8_6
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