Windschitl type approximation formulas for the gamma function

Zhen-Hang Yang1,2, Jing-Feng Tian1

  • 11College of Science and Technology, North China Electric Power University, Baoding, P.R. China.

Journal of Inequalities and Applications
|October 27, 2018
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