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Colourful counter arrangements

Given counters of different colours, with at least counters of each colour, in how many ways can an ordered arrangement of counters be formed?

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H. S. Hall & S. R. Knight, Higher Algebra (1891) · Ch. XI. Permutations and Combinations, Examples XI.b, No. 7

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