Do not understand symbol in homework

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My teacher, on the homework, posted what looked like a Reimman sum, except instead of a capital sigma, there was a Pi symbol instead. I never learned what that means or what its called. Can someone explain it to me?
 
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Thats a product. Instead of adding like in the riemann sum, you multiply everything.

[itex]\prod n= 1 \cdot 2\cdot \cdot \cdot \cdot[/itex] basically. If, n was from 1 to infinity.