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Stirling, James

James, J. and Stirling, K., Caffeine A survey of some of the known and suspected deleterious effects of habitual use. British Journal of Addiction 78(3), 251-258. [Pg.303]

Stirling s Approximation. When n gets large, evaluation of n becomes cumbersome, even with modern handheld calculators. In such cases, one can use an approximation first recognized by the Scottish mathematician James Stirling ... [Pg.543]

Factorial functions can be approximated by a formula called Stirling s formula. It is named after James Stirling (1692-1770), a Scot who began his career in mathematics amid political and religious conflicts. He was friends with Isaac Newton, but devoted most of his life after 1735 to industrial management. His ingenious formula for approximating factorial values is... [Pg.98]

James Stirling (1692-1770) devised the following approximation to compute In iVl ... [Pg.20]

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