Solution

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For occupations of distinguishable copies, the number of arrangements is the multinomial coefficient . The ensemble entropy is . Stirling's formula and give
Dividing by the number of independent copies and taking the large-ensemble limit recovers . Terms with zero occupation are interpreted by the usual convention.

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