Ball Picking

Consider an infinite repository containing balls of different types. Then the following table summarizes the number of distinct ways in which balls can be picked for four common definitions of "distinct."

type of picking	name	symbol name	symbol
ordered samples with replacement	string	power
ordered sample without replacement	permutation
unordered samples with replacement	multiset	multichoose
unordered samples without replacement	combination	binomial coefficient, choose

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