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Our goal here is to present a basic tool which can be used in a variety of enumeration problems. The need for such a tool is best illustrated by an example.
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Eğecioğlu, Ö., Garsia, A.M. (2021). The Inclusion-Exclusion Principle. In: Lessons in Enumerative Combinatorics. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 290. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71250-1_7
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