Product
The product of the members of a finite arithmetic progression with an initial element a1, common differences d, and n elements in total is determined in a closed expression
where denotes the rising factorial and denotes the Gamma function. (Note however that the formula is not valid when is a negative integer or zero.)
This is a generalization from the fact that the product of the progression is given by the factorial and that the product
for positive integers and is given by
Taking the example from above, the product of the terms of the arithmetic progression given by an = 3 + (n-1)(5) up to the 50th term is
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