#pragma GCC optimize("Ofast") 
#include<bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
#define pb push_back
#define fi first
#define se second
#define mp make_pair                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
#define all(a) a.begin(),a.end()
#define lb lower_bound
#define ub upper_bound
#define owo ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0);cin.tie(0);
#define MOD (ll)(998244353)
#define INF (ll)(1e18)
#define debug(...) fprintf(stderr, __VA_ARGS__),fflush(stderr)
#define time__(d) for(long blockTime = 0; (blockTime == 0 ? (blockTime=clock()) != 0 : false);\
debug("%s time : %.4fs\n", d, (double)(clock() - blockTime) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC))
typedef long long int ll;
typedef long double ld;
typedef pair<ll,ll> PII;
typedef pair<int,int> pii;
typedef vector<vector<int>> vii;
typedef vector<vector<ll>> VII;
int gcd(int A,int B) {if(!B)return A;return gcd(B,A%B);}
int main()
{
   ll n;
  cin>>n;
  cout<<(n*(n-1))/2;
}


Measured memory_bytes: 3588