A quicker continued fraction approximation of the gamma function related to the Windschitl's formula

DOI10.1007/S11075-015-0070-YMaRDI QIDQ306352zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dawei Lu, Lixin Song, Congxu Ma

Publication date 31 August 2016

Published in Numerical Algorithms (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11075-015-0070-y

zbMATH Keywords

gamma functionrate of convergencecontinued fractionWindschitl's formulaStirling's formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation by polynomials (41A10) Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15) Fourier coefficients, Fourier series of functions with special properties, special Fourier series (42A16)

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