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Counting
Counting is the action of finding the number of elements of a finite set of objects. The traditional way of counting consists of continually increasing a (mental or spoken) counter by a unit for every element of the set, in some order, while marking (or displacing) those elements to avoid visiting the same element more than once, until no unmarked elements are left; if the counter was set to one after the first object, the value after visiting the final object gives the desired number of elements. The related term enumeration refers to uniquely identifying the elements of a finite (combinatori
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It has never occurred to me that counting millions of leaves and swarms of bees could make money. Who could possibly be interested in how many branches there are in a tree, how many birds in a flight that crosses the sky?
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― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
― The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
