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Combinatorial principles

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In proving results in combinatorics several useful combinatorial rules or combinatorial principles are used. They involve:

  1. rule of sum
  2. rule of product
  3. rule of equality (bijective proof)
  4. bookkeper's rule
  5. pigeonhole principle
  6. inclusion-exclusion principle
  7. method of distinguished element