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Experiments in Counting
Combinatorics is a branch of mathematics that’s often called the art of counting. The “art” is in coming up with a way to organize a counting problem so that the objects being counted can be generated elegantly.
Combinatorics has many important applications. In computer science, for example, combinatorial algorithms are good for tasks such as sorting and searching through data. In telecommunications, combinatorics provides error-correcting codes and network protocols for efficient data transmission. In genetics, it’s used to analyze and model genes to understand heredity and genetic variation.
This chapter explores two ...
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