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We introduce the following new Stirling series
as a continued fraction, which is faster than the classical Stirling series.
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Mortici, C. A new Stirling series as continued fraction. Numer Algor 56, 17–26 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11075-010-9370-4
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