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- Instance of
- theorem
- Part of
- list of theorems
- Named after
- James Stirling
- Image
- Mplwp factorial gamma stirling.svg
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- studied by
- real analysis
- Commons category
- Stirling's approximation
- different from
- Starling equation
- discoverer or inventor
- Abraham de Moivre
- facet of
- factorial
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Comparison of Stirling's approximation (pink) with the factorial (blue) In mathematics, Stirling's approximation (or Stirling's formula) is an asymptotic approximation for factorials. It is a good approximation, leading to accurate results even for small values of
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stirling's approximation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.