The best bounds in wallis' inequality

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 397-401

  Chen, Chao Ping ^a   Qi, Feng ^a  

^a HENAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Best bound; Gamma function; Monotonicity; Wallis' inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 13544261733     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07499-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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