The number of proper subsets of a = {a B C D} is 4 6 16 15 process

The number of proper subsets of a = {a B C D} is 4 6 16 15 process

There is a formula for this
There are two n-th power subsets of the quaternion composed of n elements, in which the proper subset is one less than the subset, and the nonempty proper subset is two less than the subset,
So the answer is, to the fourth power of 2, 16-1 = 15