Tuesday, 17 May 2016

factorial - Stirling's Formula normalization



An obvious way to get estimates on n! is to compare logk to logt. If one could get Stirling's formula this way that would strike me as the "right" proof, because it would be clear why it works.



This morning I came much closer to this than I have in the past; in fact fairly straightforward comparisons of sums to integrals show that n!cn(ne)n.



Question: I wonder if there's some cheap trick to show that if n!cn(n/e)n then c=2π.


Answer



You could calculate the normalization for the Gaussian approximation to the binomial distribution.



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