A New Derivation of Stirling's Approximation to n!

DOI10.2307/2324749zbMath0786.05007OpenAlexW2053408986MaRDI QIDQ3984363

John C. W. Marsaglia, George Marsaglia

Publication date: 27 June 1992

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2324749

zbMATH Keywords

Stirling's formulabinomial coefficientsfactorialsapproximation to limiting values

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorials, binomial coefficients, combinatorial functions (05A10) Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Approximation to limiting values (summation of series, etc.) (40A25) Elementary functions (26A09)

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