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With no context it is difficult to be sure but I suggest that n is a counter: a variable that goes 1, 2, 3, 4, ...and x, unfortunately, represents multiplication. I say unfortunately because the accepted symbol nowadays is * rather than x.


So the expression is to multiply a number by its predecessor. The expression could represent the number of permutations of two objects selected from n distinct objects.

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