Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:

Put me down for a -1, too.

> One would also be able to things like prod(range(1, n), n) == n - 1 for 
> Wilson's primality test.

That's not the most convincing use-case, since that's a _horribly_ inefficient 
way to do a primality test in the first place (worse than trial division, even 
if you take that trial division all the way up to `n - 1` instead of the square 
root of `n`).

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