>>Simplify the following:
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>>(x-a)(x-b)(x-c)...(x-z)
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>How about the same question, but without x? :) E.g. x is not allowed
Well, if you omit the (x-x) term, there is really no way it can be simplified. Of course, you can multiply the binomials, but that wouldn't exactly make it simpler.
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