Dalam matematika, aproksimasi Stirling' (atau rumus Stirling) adalah aproksimasi asimtotik untuk faktorial. Ini adalah aproksimasi yang baik, yang menghasilkan hasil yang akurat bahkan untuk nilai
n
{\displaystyle n}
Referensi
- ↑ Dutka, Jacques (1991), "The early history of the factorial function", Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 43 (3): 225–249, doi:10.1007/BF00389433, S2CID 122237769
- ↑ Le Cam, L. (1986), "The central limit theorem around 1935", Statistical Science, 1 (1): 78–96, doi:10.1214/ss/1177013818, JSTOR 2245503, MR 0833276; see p. 81, "The result, obtained using a formula originally proved by de Moivre but now called Stirling's formula, occurs in his 'Doctrine of Chances' of 1733."
- ↑ Pearson, Karl (1924), "Historical note on the origin of the normal curve of errors", Biometrika, 16 (3/4): 402–404 [p. 403], doi:10.2307/2331714, JSTOR 2331714, I consider that the fact that Stirling showed that De Moivre's arithmetical constant was
2
π
{\displaystyle {\sqrt {2\pi }}}
does not entitle him to claim the theorem, [...]
Bacaan lebih lanjut
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- Romik, Dan (2000), "Stirling's approximation for
n
!
{\displaystyle n!}
: the ultimate short proof?", The American Mathematical Monthly, 107 (6): 556–557, doi:10.2307/2589351, JSTOR 2589351, MR 1767064
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- Peter Luschny, Approximation formulas for the factorial function n!
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