The early history of the factorial function (Q1205970)
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The early history of the factorial function (English)
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1 April 1993
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The author looks at the early history of the factorial function and analyses the work of De Moivre, Stirling, D. Bernoulli, Euler, Legendre and finally Gauss to this topic. Various formulas and approximations of the factorial function are described in detail.
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functorial function
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representation of \(n'\)
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De Moivre
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Stirling
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D. Bernoulli
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Euler
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Legendre
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Gauss
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