n! / n^n
rlahaye at new.rr.com
rlahaye at new.rr.com
Fri Apr 30 17:30:35 CEST 2004
There are a number of sequences in the OEIS that are related to Stirling's approximation for the factorial function. Among them A055775 gives the floor of n^n/n! and A073225 gives the ceiling. As the subject line of this e-mail indicates, I'm interested in the sum of n!/n^n, i.e. Sum[n=1 to infinity, n!/n^n]. I *believe* this converges to very roughly 1.879853...If so, is it at all interesting...? And if it is, perhaps it's decimal expansion could be considered for addition to the OEIS ala pi, e etc...? From Stirling it should approximate to (sqrt(2*pi*n))/e^n. I realize there is probably nothing of interest here, but am just curious.
Ross
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