Stirling's Finite Difference Formula

(1)

for , where  is the central difference and

			(2)
			(3)

with  a binomial coefficient.

REFERENCES:

Beyer, W. H. CRC Standard Mathematical Tables, 28th ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, p. 433, 1987.

Whittaker, E. T. and Robinson, G. "The Newton-Stirling Formula." §23 in The Calculus of Observations: A Treatise on Numerical Mathematics, 4th ed. New York: Dover, pp. 38-39, 1967.