Talk:Stirling's approximation
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[edit] Convergent version
The "convergent version" section is unsatisfactory. What is the analytic value of that integral in terms of Γ(z)? What does "entails evaluating" mean? --Zero 00:53, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Ok, fixed it myself. Someone might like to check. --Zero 01:22, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
How large is the remainder R in the Euler-Maclaurin series? It's traditional, I thought, to indicate that R = O(1/n) or somesuch. Slaniel 22:41, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
The link to Landau notation does not explain anything about what the tilde means.
- See "Generalizations and related usages" there.
In the section A version suitable for calculators square brackets are referenced, but do not appear in the formula. -- Meekohi 16:09, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
- Yep, would be nice if someone could fix that, especially as the reference is dead now! (thomas9987 10:53, 24 April 2007 (UTC))
I removed the external link (An overview and comparison of different approximations of the factorial function.) which isn't working at the moment, as well as the "square brackets" thing in the section A version suitable for calculators . Hope someone can put the square brackets back in the expression! --thomas9987 10:58, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Claims about QM
I am removing the 2006 additions to the history section. It is entirely too speculative, and the discussion for small n is inappropriate. For background see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Physics/Archive 13 and Talk:Planck's law. Melchoir (talk) 05:55, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
