New improvements of the Stirling formula (Q711306)
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New improvements of the Stirling formula (English)
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25 October 2010
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The author provides a few modified versions of Stirling's formula and demonstrates that they are more accurate than the classical form. The approach is based on using sufficiently many terms in a suitably chosen asymptotic expansion.
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factorial function
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Stirling's formula
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gamma function
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numeric series
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asymptotic expansion
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rate of convergence
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