Timeline for How can we justify, in deriving quantum statistics, the use of Stirling approximation in the form $\ln(x!)\approx x \ln x - x$?
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| Aug 28, 2018 at 19:33 | comment | added | Fausto Vezzaro | I upvoted your answer. Observing how the development of ln(x!) continues is interesting: if N is some thousand (or bigger until Avogadro's number too) the first two terms are approximately of the same order of magnitude while other terms are negligible. This is not a proof, but it is a convincing justification: it is safer to use both terms. | |
| Aug 8, 2018 at 15:21 | history | answered | Ori | CC BY-SA 4.0 |