A sharp two-sided inequality for bounding the Wallis ratio

DOI10.1186/S13660-015-0560-4MaRDI QIDQ2261978zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Senlin Guo, Qi Feng, Ya-Qing Bi, Qiu-Ming Luo

Publication date 13 March 2015

Published in Journal of Inequalities and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1186/s13660-015-0560-4

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic formulaestimationgamma functioninequalityWallis ratio

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorials, binomial coefficients, combinatorial functions (05A10) Binomial coefficients; factorials; (q)-identities (11B65) Inequalities involving other types of functions (26D07) Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15) Best constants in approximation theory (41A44) Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60)

Review text

It is established a sharp two-sided inequality for bounding the Wallis ratio. Some best constants for the estimation of the Wallis ratio are obtained. An asymptotic formula for the Wallis ratio is also presented.

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