| Abstract: | The purpose of this paper is to delineate some insights into the concept of multisets along with a couple of combinatorial results related to multisets. The paper indicates that a general formula needs to be worked out for determining the cardinality of the ‘Set’ (whose elements may be multisets but do not repeat) of all multisubsets of a finite multiset [x, y, z,…] m , p , t , … in which x occurs at most m times, y occurs at most p times, and so on. It outlines some directions provided in the literature and points out that they all turn out to be inefficient. Finally, a relatively more efficient formula to this effect is provided along with a remark that the problem needs further vindication. |
