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by rhn_mk1 1544 days ago
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_Microft 1544 days ago
That was more than likely not a typo. n is used like this in some fields:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N#Other_uses

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HPsquared 1544 days ago
Specifically in statistics, lowercase n refers to sample size.
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