Re: Formula Stirlinga
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- Subject: [mg130694] Re: Formula Stirlinga
- From: "Louis Talman" <talmanl at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 03:51:09 -0400 (EDT)
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On Wed, 01 May 2013 19:43:11 -0600, <karchevskymi at gmail.com> wrote: > N[n! - Sqrt[2*Pi*n]*(n/Exp[1])^n] Why do you think that this is evidence that Stirling's formula doesn't work correctly? What we know is that the *ratio* of n! to Sqrt[2*Pi*n]*(n/Exp[1])^n] approaches unity when n grows without bound. The ratio when n = 1000 works out to about 1.00008. --Lou Talman Department of Mathematical & Computer Sciences Metropolitan State University of Denver <http://rowdy.msudenver.edu/~talmanl>
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