File:Stirling error vs number of terms.svg
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Summary
| Description |
English: Plot of the error in the Stirling series for a fixed argument with increasing numbers of series terms. |
| Date | |
| Source | Own work |
| Author | Glosser.ca |
| Other versions | File:StirlingError.svg Image:StirlingError.png File:StirlingError1.svg |
| SVG development |  This diagram was created with Mathematica. |
| Source code | Mathematica codeb[0] = b[1] = 1;
b[n_] := b[n] =
1/(n + 1) (b[n - 1] - Sum[k b[k] b[n + 1 - k], {k, 2, n - 1}])
a[n_] := (2 n + 1)!! b[2 n + 1]
Approx[z_, n_] := Sqrt[2 \[Pi] z] (z/E)^z Sum[a[k] z^-k, {k, 0, n}]
err[z_, n_] := Abs[(Approx[z, n] - z!)/z!]
Block[{$MaxExtraPrecision = 150},
ListLogPlot[
{
err[10, #] & /@ Range[0, 200],
err[20, #] & /@ Range[0, 200],
err[30, #] & /@ Range[0, 200]
},
Joined -> True,
Frame -> True,
ImageSize -> Large,
PlotStyle -> Thick,
FrameStyle -> Directive[Black],
FrameLabel -> {"Number of terms", "Relative Error"},
FrameTicks -> {{Automatic, Automatic}, {Range[0, 200, 25],
Automatic}},
GridLines -> {Range[0, 200, 25], Automatic},
GridLinesStyle -> Directive[LightGray, Dashed],
PlotLegends -> Placed[
LineLegend[{10, 20, 30}, LegendLabel -> "Argument, n:"],
Top
]
]
]
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| current | 19:04, 23 April 2016 | | 736 × 499 (80 KB) | wikimediacommons>Rayhem | Fix margins |
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