Pochhammer symbol

English

Etymology

Introduced by Leo August Pochhammer.

Noun

Pochhammer symbol (plural Pochhammer symbols)

  1. (mathematics) The notation (x)n, where n is a non-negative integer, which depending on the context represents either the rising factorial or the falling factorial.
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