Two families of approximations for the gamma function

DOI10.1007/S11075-012-9671-XMaRDI QIDQ383512zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lei Feng, Weiping Wang

Publication date 4 December 2013

Published in Numerical Algorithms (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11075-012-9671-x

zbMATH Keywords

gamma functionLuschny's formulaNemes' formulanumerical comparisonStieltjes formulaStirling's formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15) Numerical approximation and evaluation of special functions (33F05) Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20)

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