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Stirling's approximation, an Uncommon card
In mathematics, Stirling's approximation is an asymptotic approximation for factorials.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 53
- Power
- 124
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 190,000
Power 124 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It is a good approximation, leading to accurate results even for small values of n.
- It is named after James Stirling, though a related but less precise result was first stated by Abraham de Moivre.
- One way of stating the approximation involves the logarithm of the factorial: ln n ! = n ln n − n + O, where the big O notation means that, for all sufficiently large values of n, the difference between ln n ! and n ln n − n will be at most proportional to the logarithm of n.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Stirling's approximation article was read about 190,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 53: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Stirling's approximation (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Geek3, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

