Combinatorial principles

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

• Rule of sum
• Rule of product
• Bijective proof
• Double counting (proof technique)
• Pigeonhole principle
• Inclusion-exclusion principle
• Method of distinguished element
• Generating function
• Recurrence relation

[edit] See also

• Statements true in L

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