Stirling's Series Revisited
Abstract
A concise and elementary derivation of the complete asymptotic expansion for the factorial function n! is presented. This treatment produces a new expression for the coefficients, and it brings to light the simple relationship between the asymptotic expansions of n! and 1/n!.
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