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An accurate approximation formula for gamma function

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2017-12-22 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we present a very accurate approximation for gamma function: \begin{equation*} \Gamma \left( x+1\right) \thicksim \sqrt{2\pi x}\left( \dfrac{x}{e}\right) ^{x}\left( x\sinh \frac{1}{x}\right) ^{x/2}\exp \left( \frac{7}{324}\frac{1}{ x^{3}\left( 35x^{2}+33\right) }\right) =W_{2}\left( x\right) \end{equation*} as xx\rightarrow \infty , and prove that the function xlnΓ(x+1)lnW2(x)x\mapsto \ln \Gamma \left( x+1\right) -\ln W_{2}\left( x\right) is strictly decreasing and convex from (1,)\left( 1,\infty \right) onto (0,β)\left( 0,\beta \right) , where \begin{equation*} \beta =\frac{22\,025}{22\,032}-\ln \sqrt{2\pi \sinh 1}\approx 0.00002407. \end{equation*}

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@article{arxiv.1712.08051,
  title  = {An accurate approximation formula for gamma function},
  author = {Zhen-Hang Yang and Jing-Feng Tian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.08051},
  year   = {2017}
}

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9 pages

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