What is a chromatic polynomial of a graph?

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What is a chromatic polynomial of a graph?

The chromatic polynomial of a graph is a polynomial that counts the number of ways to color the vertices of the graph using a given number of colors, such that no adjacent vertices have the same color. It is denoted by P(G, λ), where G is the graph and λ is the number of colors. The value of the chromatic polynomial at a specific value of λ represents the number of distinct proper vertex colorings of the graph using λ colors.