Double Counting

Double counting may refer to:

  • Double counting (proof technique), a method in combinatorics that proves two expressions to be equal by demonstrating that they are different ways of counting the same set
  • Double counting (fallacy), a fallacy in combinatorics and probability theory whereby objects are counted more than once
  • Double counting (accounting), an error in accounting whereby a transaction is counted more than once

Famous quotes containing the words double and/or counting:

    One key, one solution to the mysteries of the human condition, one solution to the old knots of fate, freedom, and foreknowledge, exists, the propounding, namely, of the double consciousness. A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and public nature, as the equestrians in the circus throw themselves nimbly from horse to horse, or plant one foot on the back of one, and the other foot on the back of the other.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    If you’re counting my eyebrows, I can help you. There are two.
    Billy Wilder (b. 1906)