Falling and Rising Factorial
The notation (x)n is used to denote the falling factorial, an n-th degree polynomial defined by
Confusingly, the same notation may be encountered as representing the rising factorial, also called "Pochhammer symbol". Another notation for the same is x(n). It can be defined by
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