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overcounting

Counting a bigger, easier set where every real outcome is hit the same number of times, then dividing that fixed factor away.

A naive count N overcounts a set by a uniform factor r when every genuine outcome is counted exactly r times; the true count is N/r.

Examples

  • n people around a circle: n! overcounts by exactly n (one per rotation), giving (n-1)!.

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