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Two asymptotic expansions for gamma function developed by Windschitl's formula

Published 21 Dec 2017 in math.CA | (1712.08039v1)

Abstract: In this paper, we develop Windschitl's approximation formula for the gamma function to two asymptotic expansions by using a little known power series. In particular, for $n\in \mathbb{N}$ with $n\geq 4$, we have \begin{equation*} \Gamma \left( x+1\right) =\sqrt{2\pi x}\left( \tfrac{x}{e}\right) {x}\left( x\sinh \tfrac{1}{x}\right) {x/2}\exp \left( \sum_{k=3}{n-1}\tfrac{\left( 2k\left( 2k-2\right) !-2{2k-1}\right) B_{2k}}{2k\left( 2k\right) !x{2k-1}} +R_{n}\left( x\right) \right) \end{equation*} with \begin{equation*} \left| R_{n}\left( x\right) \right| \leq \frac{\left| B_{2n}\right| }{2n\left( 2n-1\right) }\frac{1}{x{2n-1}} \end{equation*} for all $x>0$, where $B_{2n}$ is the Bernoulli number. Moreover, we present some approximation formulas for gamma function related to Windschitl's approximation one, which have higher accuracy.

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