Remarks on a paper by Chao-Ping Chen and Feng Qi

Koumandos, Stamatis

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Remarks on a paper by Chao-Ping Chen and Feng Qi
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Abstract:

In a recent paper, Chao-Ping Chen and Feng Qi (2005) established sharp upper and lower bounds for the sequence $P_{n}:=\frac {1.3\ldots (2n-1)}{2.4\ldots 2n}$. We show that their result follows easily from a theorem of G. N Watson published in 1959. We also show that the main result of Chen and Qi’s paper is a special case of a more general inequality which admits a very short proof.

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