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Alexander Woo
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A very elementary example (simpler than the ones you've given) is the generating function for the number of partitions of $n$, denoted $p_n$: $$\sum_{n\geq 0} p_n q^n = \prod_{i\geq 0} \frac{1}{1-q^i}.$$