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Stirred, Not Shaken, by Stirling's Formula

Summary In this note an elementary proof of Stirling's asymptotic formula for n! is given. The proof uses the Wallis formula for π and the trapezoidal rule for the calculation of a definite integral, with error estimate.

Paul Levrie

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