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A Slide-Rule Approximation to the Factorial Function of a Positive Fraction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

H. M. Finucan
H. M. Finucan*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Mathematics, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, S.W.6, Brisbane, Queensland
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Extract

In a sense Stirling’s formula can be adapted to slide-rule computation of x! when a; is a fraction and tables are not at hand.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 50 , Issue 371 , February 1966 , pp. 31 - 32
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1966

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References

1. Skellam, J. Gordon, Computation of n!. The Mathematical Gazette, XXX (1946) p. 90.Google Scholar