Principle of Inclusion and Exclusion
This principle gives us the cardinality of the union of sets. |A1 ∪ A2 ∪ A3 ∪ A4 ∪ ... ∪ An|=(|A1| + |A2| + |A3| +...+ |An|)-(|A1 ∩ A2| +|A1 ∩ A3| + ....+|An-1 ∩ An|) + .........+(−1)^{n-1}(|A1 ∩ A2 ∩ A3 ∩.....∩ An|)
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