( Confusingly, the Pochhammer symbol that many use for falling factorials is used in special functions for rising factorials.

This crescent shape is reminiscent of the sickle described in the Key of Solomon, a medieval grimoire which is one of the sources for modern Wicca .. Confusingly, an Italian version of the Key of Solomon has a hook-shaped knife called an artauo ( a possible root for athame ) and a straight, needle-shaped blade called a bolino.

Confusingly, the 860 number has since been re-used for a motherboard control chipset for Intel Xeon ( high-end Pentium ) systems.

Confusingly, this means that it is possible to be both a " freshman Senator " and a " senior Senator " simultaneously: for example, if a Senator wins election in 2008, and then the other Senator from the same state steps down and a new Senator elected in 2010, the former Senator is both senior Senator ( as in the Senate for two years more ) and a freshman Senator ( since still in the first term ).

Confusingly, the JCR ( Junior Combination Room ) is also the name for the entire student body ' en masse ' ( including the graduates ) and the name of the student common room as well.

Confusingly, some Chinese emperors styled many or all close male relatives of certain kinds such as brothers, uncles, or nephews as wang, a term for king, using it as a courtesy title.

Confusingly, sometimes the term is used for assembly language compatibility, where the source is already human-readable machine code but must be converted to executable code by an assembler.

) Confusingly, there were contradictory announcements about the cast list for the show, with one " finalised line-up " announced on Amnesty's webpage for the event and a different " finalised cast list " announced on the webpage of the event's broadcaster Channel Four indicating a lack of coordination between the two wings of the production.

Confusingly, the Secretary of State responsible for this Department was titled the Secretary of State for Social Services.

Confusingly, Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his Historia Regum Britanniae ( 1136 ), uses the name Samuil Penessil for a legendary pre-Roman king of Britain, preceded by Redechius and succeeded by Pir.

Confusingly in the context of Crawley's later history, this area was called " New Town ", a name which persisted for many years ; it had no connection with the later establishment of the New Town of Crawley under the New Towns Act 1946, the name being merely a coincidence.

Confusingly, Citrix has also used the Xen brand itself for some proprietary products unrelated to Xen, including at least " XenApp " and " XenDesktop ".

Confusingly, some English-speaking archaeologists, such as Aubrey Burl, use this second meaning for cromlech in English too.

Confusingly, the term convective derivative is both used for the whole material derivative Dφ / Dt or Du / Dt, and for only the spatial rate of change part, v •∇ φ or v •∇ u respectively.

Confusingly, the special NKVD rank system was left intact, so for example Captain of Militsiya / State Security was assigned the three-box insignia of an army Colonel ( in the Red Army, this patch was reassigned to Lieutenant Colonel in September 1939, but the NKVD did not alter their insignia ) and Major of Militsiya / State Security was mapped to one-romb insignia of Kombrig ( a brigade commander ) ( which was abolished for commanding officers of the Red Army in May 1940 ).

Confusingly, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography was once called the Scripps Institution for Biological Research.

Confusingly, the same name is used also of a closely related but distinct ethnic group living mostly in East Karelia, earlier also in some of the territories Finland ceded to the Soviet Union in 1944.

Confusingly, West Ham United FC's ground is also located ( just ) within the East Ham seat.

Confusingly, the professionals from these medical domains do not hold a doctorate, which is in France only a research doctorate, but a " State Diploma of Doctor " ( Diplôme d ' État de docteur en médecine ).

An agent of the ARM, Gil Hamilton, is the protagonist of Niven's sci-fi detective stories, a series-within-a-series gathered in the collection Flatlander ( Confusingly, " Flatlander " is also the name of an unrelated Known Space story.

( Confusingly, W44 additionally contains a pulsar and pulsar wind nebula ; so it is simultaneously both a " classic " composite and a thermal composite.

Confusingly, the Poynting vector is sometimes called the power flux, which is an example of the first usage of flux, above.

Confusingly, " geranium " is also the common name of members of the genus Pelargonium ( sometimes known as ' storksbill '), which are also in the Geraniaceae family.

Confusingly, the Korean sancho ( 산초, 山椒 ) refers to a different if related species ( Z. schinifolium ), while Z. piperitum is known as chopi ( 초피 ).

Confusingly, the community is not a part of Moran Township, which is adjacent to Brevort Township on the south and west.

Confusingly, the community is not a part of Brevort Township, which is adjacent to Moran Township on the north and east.

( Confusingly, a will is also said to be executed when its provisions are subsequently carried out by the executors )

Confusingly, it is not a root directory in the sense of this article, but rather the home directory of the Superuser ( conventionally known as " root ").

Confusingly, a communication is often synchronous at the physical layer, while being asynchronous at the data link layer.

Confusingly, the term " Fermi energy " is often used to describe a different but closely related concept, the Fermi level ( also called chemical potential ).

Confusingly, Design Patterns uses " aggregate " to refer to the blank in the code which is unrelated to the term " aggregation ".

Confusingly, Scots is also used adjectivally when referring to the people of Scotland, and / or to either Scots Gaelic or Scots English ( Lowlands ).

Confusingly, 617 Patroclus was named before the Greece / Troy rule was devised, and a Greek name thus appears in the Trojan node ; the Greek node also has one " misplaced " asteroid, 624 Hektor, named after a Trojan hero.

Confusingly, the word Garrafeira may also be found on some very old tawny labels, where the contents of the bottle are of exceptional age.

Confusingly, it was also possible to buy Viva models with the larger engines, but with vinyl interior trim.

Confusingly, in 1962, the Salvation Army started a group also called " Narcotics Anonymous " that followed a different " 13-step " program, but this program soon died out.

Confusingly, the star β Ophiuchi is sometimes also called Alrai, but it is more commonly known as Cebalrai or Kelb Alrai, meaning " shepherd's dog ".

Confusingly, his brother Frederick also has a mountain in British Columbia named after him, from his days as artist illustrator with the Robert Brown's Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition in 1864.

Confusingly, the common name " cockle " is also given ( by seafood sellers ) to a number of other small, edible bivalves which have a somewhat similar shape, but these bivalves are in other families such as the Veneridae ( Venus clams ) and the Arcidae ( ark clams ).

Confusingly, they are not related to the Old World family of large carnivorous bats to be found in the Megadermatidae that are also called false vampires.

( Confusingly, Irving was also influential in the life of another Scottish Thomas Carlyle, born a few years later, whom he eventually gave a position of some responsibility within his new church.

Confusingly, P. gularis has also been referred to as the Ruby-throated Bulbul.

Confusingly, there was another Auto-Buggy made by Success, also of St Louis.

Confusingly, another American company also offered a car called the Allen, also in 1913.

Confusingly, another American company also offered a car called the Allen, also in 1913, though the Ohio model was somewhat more successful.