Best estimates of the generalized Stirling formula

DOI10.1016/J.AMC.2009.12.013MaRDI QIDQ2266985zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cristinel Mortici

Publication date 26 February 2010

Published in Applied Mathematics and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2009.12.013

zbMATH Keywords

approximationsfactorial functionGamma functionspeed of convergence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities for sums, series and integrals (26D15) Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15) Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60)

Review text

The author proves several approximation formulae for the factorial function that extend the well known formulae of Stirling, Burnside and Gosper. The author presents numerical results that show the superiority of the new formulae over the known ones.

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