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Euler-Maclaurin, harmonic sums and Stirling's formula

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2015

G. J. O. Jameson*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YF, e-mail: g.jameson@lancaster.ac.uk

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