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Author: Ball, David W. (david Warren), BAER, Tomas
Publisher: Wadsworth Cengage Learning,
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Chapter 17, Problem 17.7E
Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

The given statement that Stirling’s approximation equation could be obtained from the given expression is to be shown.

Concept introduction:

Stirling’s approximation is used to estimate the natural logarithm of factorial of a number. The Stirling’s approximation is represented as,

lnN!NlnNN

It is assumed in Stirling’s approximation that N is a large number.

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