Yeah, so, for putting items into indistinguishable boxes, really has no theorem in our knowledge as of yet. So the easiest way to do this is to directly express them and then count.

5 objects into 3 groups: {ABCDE} {ABCD,E} {ABC,DE} {ABC,D,E} {AB,CD,E}

Hence 5 different groups.

--Michael Burgess

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