Re: FullSimplify again ...
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- Subject: [mg59156] Re: FullSimplify again ...
- From: "Chris" <topher at csh.rit.edu>
- Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 01:30:33 -0400 (EDT)
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Actually, it's not all that strange. If you consider n to be real, the
expression 0 at anything but a few integers making the function 0
except for a few holes.
In[43]:=
FullSimplify[Product[(5-i)/5,{i,1,n}],n\[Element]Integers]
Out[43]:=
(-1/5)^n*Pochhammer[-4, n]