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On a Difference Equation due to Stirling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

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In 1730 there was published Stirling's Methodus Differentialis, and in it (Prop. VIII., p. 44) he considers the Difference Equation

and shows that it is satisfied by an inverse factorial series

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1917