13.3 Stirling's Theorem
The value of n! increases very quickly with n. 30! produces a member requiring 33 figures to write. Stirling gave an approximate formula for n!
Taking log of both sides,
It can be proved in the following way
or
The summation can be approximately replaced by the integration
or
or
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