Chapter 1 Stirling ’ s Formula
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How do the two most important fundamental constants of mathematics, e and π, find their way into an asymptotic formula for the product of integers? We give two very different arguments (one will not show the full formula) that, between them, illustrate a good number of basic asymptotic methods. The formal language of Asymptopia, such as o(n) and O(n), is deferred to Chapter 2. Two further arguments for Stirling’s formula are given in §3.2.3.
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