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In how many ways can you arrange 5 objects in a row? How many poker hands have two pairs? Counting is one of the original purposes of mathematics. You can find counting problems in everyday life and in calculating probabilities (how likely is it to have two pairs in a poker hand?). You have already seen some counting problems in previous chapters and learned about the recursion technique. In this chapter we will take a systematic look at counting problems.
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Grieser, D. (2018). Counting. In: Exploring Mathematics. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90321-7_5
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