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Venn diagram showing the union of sets A and B as everything not in white. In combinatorics, the inclusion–exclusion principle is a counting technique which generalizes the familiar method of obtaining the number of elements in the union of two finite sets; symbolically expressed as
The inclusion–exclusion principle relates the size of the union of multiple sets, the size of each set, and the size of each possible intersection of the sets. The smallest example is when there are two sets: the number of elements in the union of A and B is equal to the sum of the number of elements in A and B , minus the number of elements ...
The Pauli exclusion principle helps explain a wide variety of physical phenomena. One particularly important consequence of the principle is the elaborate electron shell structure of atoms and the way atoms share electrons, explaining the variety of chemical elements and their chemical combinations.
The first thousand values of φ(n).The points on the top line represent φ(p) when p is a prime number, which is p − 1. [1]In number theory, Euler's totient function counts the positive integers up to a given integer n that are relatively prime to n.
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Inclusion (set theory), or subset; Inclusion (Boolean algebra), the Boolean analogue to the subset relation; Inclusion map, or inclusion function, or canonical injection; Inclusion (logic), the concept that all the contents of one object are also contained within a second object
5+0=5 illustrated with collections of dots. In combinatorics, the addition principle [1] [2] or rule of sum [3] [4] is a basic counting principle.Stated simply, it is the intuitive idea that if we have A number of ways of doing something and B number of ways of doing another thing and we can not do both at the same time, then there are + ways to choose one of the actions.
You might want to take a look at the approach given in Inclusion-Exclusion Principle in ProofWiki (a fast-growing baby sibling of this one). The emphasis here is on the general additive function , which automatically takes on board the counting function and the probability measure (in fact, any measure you care to consider).