Counting snail venom

Geoff Smith, 1998

• Introduction
• How big is a union of finitely many finite sets?
  • Example Application 1
  • Example Application 2
• Enumerations related to snail venom.
• The Main Calculation
  • Four occurrences of B
  • Six occurrences of B
    • The language
    • The language
  • Eight occurrences of B
    • The language
  • The language
• The escargot polynomials and associated numbers
  • Four occurrences of B.
  • Six occurrences of B.
  • Eight occurrences of B
• About this document ...