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A046969 Denominators of coefficients in Stirling's expansion for ln Gamma(z). 2
12, 360, 1260, 1680, 1188, 360360, 156, 122400, 244188, 125400, 5796, 1506960, 300, 93960, 2492028, 505920, 396, 2418179400, 444, 21106800, 3109932, 118680, 25380, 104700960, 6468, 324360, 2283876, 382800, 40356, 201025024200, 732 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

REFERENCES

M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun, eds., Handbook of Mathematical Functions, National Bureau of Standards Applied Math.Series 55, Tenth Printing, 1972, p. 257, Eq. 6.1.41.

L. V. Ahlfors, Complex Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1979, p. 205

C. Impens, Stirling's series made easy, Am. Math. Monthly, 110 (No. 8, 2003), pp. 730-735.

LINKS

M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun, eds., Handbook of Mathematical Functions, National Bureau of Standards, Applied Math. Series 55, Tenth Printing, 1972 [alternative scanned copy].

M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun, eds., Handbook of Mathematical Functions, National Bureau of Standards Applied Math.Series 55, Tenth Printing, 1972, p. 257, Eq. 6.1.41.

Thomas Bayes, A letter to John Canton, Phil. Trans. Royal Society London, 53 (1763), 269-271.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Stirling's Series

FORMULA

From denominator of Jk(z) = (-1)^(k-1)*Bk/(((2k)*(2k-1))*z^(2k-1)), so Gamma(z) = sqrt(2pi)*z^(z-0.5)*exp(-z)*exp(J(z))

MATHEMATICA

Table[ Denominator[ BernoulliB[2n]/(2n(2n - 1))], {n, 31}] (* Robert G. Wilson v Sep 21 2006 *)

PROG

(PARI) a(n)=if(n<1, 0, denominator(bernfrac(2*n)/(2*n)/(2*n-1)))

CROSSREFS

Numerators are given in A046968.

Sequence in context: A202926 A134800 A053068 * A074094 A012553 A128043

Adjacent sequences:  A046966 A046967 A046968 * A046970 A046971 A046972

KEYWORD

frac,nonn,nice

AUTHOR

Douglas Stoll, dougstoll(AT)email.msn.com

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Frank.Ellermann(AT)t-online.de, Jun 13 2001

Bayes reference from Henry Bottomley (se16(AT)btinternet.com), Jun 03 2003

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