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In mathematics, Stirling's approximation (or Stirling's formula) is an asymptotic approximation for factorials. It is a good approximation, leading to accurate results even for small values of . It is named after James Stirling, though a related but less precise result was first stated by Abraham de Moivre. [1] [2] [3]
Declarative solutions are easier to understand than imperative solutions, [1] [2] and so there has been a long-term trend from imperative to declarative methods. [3] [4] Formula calculators are part of this trend. Many software tools for the general user, such as spreadsheets, are declarative. Formula calculators are examples of such tools.
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For solving the cubic equation x 3 + m 2 x = n where n > 0, Omar Khayyám constructed the parabola y = x 2 /m, the circle that has as a diameter the line segment [0, n/m 2] on the positive x-axis, and a vertical line through the point where the circle and the parabola intersect above the x-axis.
Even for the first root that involves at most two square roots, the expression of the solutions in terms of radicals is usually highly complicated. However, when no square root is needed, the form of the first solution may be rather simple, as for the equation x 5 − 5x 4 + 30x 3 − 50x 2 + 55x − 21 = 0, for which the only real solution is
where f (2k−1) is the (2k − 1)th derivative of f and B 2k is the (2k)th Bernoulli number: B 2 = 1 / 6 , B 4 = − + 1 / 30 , and so on. Setting f ( x ) = x , the first derivative of f is 1, and every other term vanishes, so [ 15 ]
This case can always be reduced to a biquadratic equation. Multiplicity-3 (M3): when the general quartic equation can be expressed as () =, where and are two different real numbers. This is the only case that can never be reduced to a biquadratic equation.
Faulhaber's formula is also called Bernoulli's formula. Faulhaber did not know the properties of the coefficients later discovered by Bernoulli. Rather, he knew at least the first 17 cases, as well as the existence of the Faulhaber polynomials for odd powers described below. [2] Jakob Bernoulli's Summae Potestatum, Ars Conjectandi, 1713