Problem 44258. Outer product of multiple vectors

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David Verrelli on 17 Jan 2018

The final test may not be the ideal choice, as the answer, with expected value around 50¹⁰⁰⁰ ~ 10¹⁶⁹⁹, becomes "Inf" almost certainly. Also there are no outputs of dimension>2 required by the Test Suite.

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