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curprev 18:2318:23, 2 December 2022 David Eppstein talk contribs 23,775 bytes −117 Undid revision 1125188357 by Lost-n-translation (talk) unnecessarily inaccurate (why skip the 1/2 on the log term?) and unsourced undo Tags: Undo Reverted
curprev 17:2817:28, 2 December 2022 Lost-n-translation talk contribs m 23,892 bytes +117 added a user friendly estimate that does not use Big theta stuff undo Tag: Reverted

curprev 06:5906:59, 28 November 2022 Tea2min talk contribs 23,775 bytes +309 Undid revision 1124291393 by 14.139.69.173 (talk): Revert what I believe to be a test edit. undo Tag: Undo
curprev 06:0206:02, 28 November 2022 14.139.69.173 talk 23,466 bytes −309 No edit summary undo Tag: Reverted

curprev 22:2522:25, 21 November 2022 Onlineuser577215 talk contribs m 23,775 bytes 0 →A convergent version of Stirling's formula: Should say Binets formula not Raabes formula undo Tag: Visual edit

curprev 13:0813:08, 11 September 2022 178.165.175.236 talk 23,775 bytes +2 O -> Θ, undo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

curprev 22:4922:49, 7 September 2022 Discospinster talk contribs m 23,773 bytes −172 Reverted edits by 65.33.228.90 (talk) (HG) (3.4.10) undo Tag: Rollback
curprev 22:4822:48, 7 September 2022 65.33.228.90 talk 23,945 bytes +96 No edit summary undo Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
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curprev 01:3501:35, 2 September 2022 133.86.157.163 talk 23,773 bytes +13 →Error bounds undo
curprev 01:1801:18, 2 September 2022 133.86.157.163 talk 23,760 bytes 0 →Error bounds undo

curprev 16:0416:04, 27 January 2022 216.131.22.42 talk 23,760 bytes +31 Clarifies that de Moivre did not actually state the Stirling approximation and instead gave a related expression with an unspecified constant. This fact is already mentioned later in the article, so this edit is needed for consistency. undo

curprev 16:2616:26, 16 January 2022 JayBeeEll talk contribs 23,729 bytes −3,424 →Estimating central effect in the binomial distribution: Back in May 2020 I wrote "tagging as uncited, but maybe it should just be removed as OR?" Revisiting, I believe my second instinct was correct: it seems implausible that any of the substance here can be attributed to reliable sources undo

curprev 20:2220:22, 5 December 2021 Caleb Stanford talk contribs 27,153 bytes +20 →Speed of convergence and error estimates: update other instance also undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
curprev 17:4117:41, 5 December 2021 2406:b400:d1:8608:b965:38c1:84bf:3e6f talk 27,133 bytes +20 Improve readability. Keeping the sqrt(2*pi*n)(n/e)^n consistent with the approximation right above it helps show what term was added to make it accurate. undo

curprev 00:5400:54, 8 November 2021 Caleb Stanford talk contribs 27,113 bytes +6 clarify (<math>n \ge 1</math>) undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
curprev 00:5100:51, 8 November 2021 Caleb Stanford talk contribs 27,107 bytes +67 use more precise big theta undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

curprev 22:1522:15, 7 November 2021 Caleb Stanford talk contribs 27,040 bytes +436 Mention bounds possible for all n in intro (but using Robinson bound this time), based on talk page discussion undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

curprev 16:4616:46, 2 November 2021 David Eppstein talk contribs 26,604 bytes −367 Undid revision 1053200023 by 2A02:AB88:370B:4D80:AAC3:4EF7:A57F:DF51 (talk) Agree with Chrisahn — the wrong leading term makes this a bad approximation undo Tag: Undo
curprev 14:2214:22, 2 November 2021 2a02:ab88:370b:4d80:aac3:4ef7:a57f:df51 talk 26,971 bytes +367 Undid revision 1036731949 by Chrisahn (talk) I wanted to undo this change: The reason is that people are often also interested in bounds that are also valid for small n. undo Tags: Undo Reverted

curprev 10:3610:36, 26 August 2021 Chrisahn talk contribs 25,154 bytes +30 →Alternative derivation: little-o is correct here, 1/12n + O(1/n) doesn't make sense undo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
curprev 10:2510:25, 26 August 2021 CanaDavid1 talk contribs m 25,124 bytes +22 Big O notation in select derivations did not use a big O undo Tag: Visual edit

curprev 12:4412:44, 18 August 2021 Jameshfisher talk contribs 25,102 bytes +10 Parentheses to clarify order of operations - IMO, "ln n!" is ambiguous / hard to read undo

curprev 11:1511:15, 2 August 2021 Chrisahn talk contribs 25,092 bytes −367 →top: removed paragraph giving an upper bound that isn't very useful - it's always e/sqrt(2pi)-1=8.4% too high undo Tags: Reverted Visual edit: Switched

curprev 13:4013:40, 28 June 2021 ReyHahn talk contribs 25,459 bytes +16 text style in equation undo Tag: Visual edit

curprev 05:0505:05, 16 June 2021 Sleigh talk contribs 25,443 bytes +1 →Error bounds: fix equation, see ref https://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.0166.pdf undo

curprev 01:0701:07, 24 March 2021 JayBeeEll talk contribs 25,368 bytes −4 Undid revision 1013875005 by 69.174.156.218 (talk) no, it was right before (little o) undo Tag: Undo

curprev 22:5622:56, 23 March 2021 69.174.156.218 talk 25,372 bytes +4 Missing the power ^{2} just after "... Stirling's formula to two orders:" undo Tag: Reverted

curprev 20:1620:16, 10 March 2021 209.6.95.238 talk 25,368 bytes +18 Undid revision 1011421879 by 209.6.95.238 (talk) undo Tag: Undo
curprev 20:1420:14, 10 March 2021 209.6.95.238 talk 25,350 bytes −18 →Stirling's formula for the gamma function: The equation had 2\pi/z (rather than 2\pi z), which does not match the expression for the factorial approximation and is incorrect (see e.g. https://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/jameson/stirlgamma.pdf and https://mathworld.wolfram.com/StirlingsApproximation.html) undo Tags: Reverted Visual edit

curprev 21:1521:15, 1 March 2021 PMajer talk contribs 25,368 bytes −51 →An alternative derivation: The use of the symbol ~ here would not be consistent with the definition given in the introduction undo

curprev 08:4708:47, 22 December 2020 Chongkian talk contribs 25,419 bytes +21 add navbox undo

curprev 07:1607:16, 17 December 2020 Stockmausen talk contribs m 25,398 bytes +51 Importing Wikidata short description: "Approximation for factorials" (Shortdesc helper) undo

curprev 13:5813:58, 26 November 2020 Monkbot talk contribs m 25,347 bytes −56 Task 18 (cosmetic): eval 17 templates: del empty params (7×); undo Tag: AWB

curprev 15:0015:00, 15 October 2020 JayBeeEll talk contribs m 25,403 bytes +1 Reverted 1 edit by 41.202.219.75 (talk) to last revision by Tom.Reding undo Tags: Twinkle Undo
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curprev 01:2001:20, 12 October 2020 Tom.Reding talk contribs m 25,403 bytes +8 last-author-amp=y/yes → name-list-style=amp; etc. undo Tag: AWB

curprev 09:2509:25, 10 September 2020 2a02:120b:7f3:ae40:86:fd6f:e881:943c talk 25,395 bytes −8 No edit summary undo Tag: Manual revert
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curprev 16:2716:27, 27 August 2020 OAbot talk contribs m 25,395 bytes +17 Open access bot: doi added to citation with #oabot. undo

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