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diff --git a/Lib/collections/__init__.py b/Lib/collections/__init__.py
index bb9a605..c4bff59 100644
--- a/Lib/collections/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/collections/__init__.py
@@ -711,6 +711,13 @@ class Counter(dict):
#
# To strip negative and zero counts, add-in an empty counter:
# c += Counter()
+ #
+ # Rich comparison operators for multiset subset and superset tests
+ # are deliberately omitted due to semantic conflicts with the
+ # existing inherited dict equality method. Subset and superset
+ # semantics ignore zero counts and require that p≤q ∧ p≥q → p=q;
+ # however, that would not be the case for p=Counter(a=1, b=0)
+ # and q=Counter(a=1) where the dictionaries are not equal.
def __add__(self, other):
'''Add counts from two counters.