Give me a practical use-case of Multi-set

Question

I would like to know a few practical use-cases (if they are not related/tied to any programming language it will be better).I can associate Sets, Lists and Maps to practical

Answer 1

Lots of applications. For example, imagine a shopping cart. That can contain more than one instance of an item - i.e. 2 cpu's, 3 graphics boards, etc. So it is a Multi-set. One simple implementation is to also keep track of the number of items of each - i.e. keep around the info 2 cpu's, 3 graphics boards, etc.

I'm sure you can think of lots of other applications.