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[–] Mistic 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You could argue it's implied that a-z sequence contains x. But I agree that it's a bit ambiguous.

Here's what a better notation would look like:

(1-x)(2-x)(3-x)...(n-x) for x from N

Or

(b0 - x)(b1 -x)(b2-x)...(bn-x)

This way, both Bn and X could be any number and not just natural ones.