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Source code of the Theoretical Physics Reference online book
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Improve the gamma function derivation #81

Open certik opened 7 years ago

certik commented 7 years ago

Follow the Theorem 1. in:

http://scorevoting.net/WarrenSmithPages/homepage/gammprox.ps

and the references there. We currently use the log(gamma) concave condition, but that has always been a bit ad hoc -- better is to use the Carlson's theorem.