double counting

English

Noun

double counting (countable and uncountable, plural double countings)

  1. An error in accounting, probability studies, etc. whereby some object or transaction is counted more than once.
  2. A method in combinatorics that proves two expressions to be equal by demonstrating that they are different ways of counting the same set.
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