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Cluster Expansion

In the cluster expansion (section 5.2 in M. Kardar "Statistical Physics of Particles") we write the grand canonical partition function. During the expansion, we do the following switch between a sum and a product: $$ \sum\limits_{\{n_l\}} \prod_l \frac{1}{n_l!}\left(\frac{e^{l\beta\mu} b_l}{\lambda^{3l}l!}\right)^{n_l} = \prod_l \sum\limits_{n_l=0}^\infty \frac{1}{n_l!}\left(\frac{e^{l\beta\mu} b_l}{\lambda^{3l}l!}\right)^{n_l} $$ ($l$ is the size of the cluster, and $n_l$ is the number of clusters)

I'm trying to understand why this is fine. I figured that $ \sum\limits_{\{n_l\}} \prod_l$ means that we're going over all possible sets of cluster numbers (e.g 5 clusters of size 1, 3 of size 2, etc..) but in this case, what is the meaning of the product? How is the connection between $n_l$ and $l$ apparent?

$\prod_l \sum\limits_{n_l=0}^\infty $ is much clearer - for every cluster size, we look at all numbers of it possible.

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