The factorial of a number, written as , is defined as .
[http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Multifactorial.html Multifactorials] generalize factorials as follows:
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In all cases, the terms in the products are positive integers.
If we define the degree of the multifactorial as the difference in successive terms that are multiplied together for a multifactorial (the number of exclamation marks), then the task is twofold:
# Write a function that given n and the degree, calculates the multifactorial.
# Use the function to generate and display here a table of the first ten members (1 to 10) of the first five degrees of multifactorial.
'''Note:''' The [[wp:Factorial#Multifactorials|wikipedia entry on multifactorials]] gives a different formula. This task uses the [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Multifactorial.html Wolfram mathworld definition].