We present a new sieve for the distinct coordinate counting problem. This significantly improves the classical inclusion-exclusion sieve for this problem, in the sense that the number of terms is reduced from 2 k 2 to k!, and reduced further to p(k) in the symmetric case, where p(k) denotes the number of partitions of k. As an illustration of applications, we give an in-depth study of a basic example arising from coding theory and graph theory.
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