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Thermal Physics<br />

Stirling’s Theorem<br />

One form of Stirling’s theorem is that for large n<br />

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If n is very large we can simplify this by taking logs<br />

Noticing that is much smaller than other terms for large n,<br />

we can simply further as<br />

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