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Re: Formula Stirlinga

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  • From: Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu>
  • Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 03:50:49 -0400 (EDT)
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On 5/1/2013 6:40 PM, karchevskymi at gmail.com wrote:
> n = 1000;
> N[n! - Sqrt[2*Pi*n]*(n/Exp[1])^n] = 3.35308734163*10^2563
> Why does Stirling's formula works incorrect?
>
Mathematica has correctly computed what you specified.

You apparently have a misunderstanding of Stirling's formula,
but that is quite independent of Mathematica.





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