double counting

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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.