The conjectured extension of the Burnside–Stirling–Gautschi bound

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Let m^1/2(x,α)\widehat{m}_{1/2}(x,\alpha) denote the logarithmic error term for the shifted interpolation parameter α\alpha, let D^1/2\widehat{D}_{1/2} be its stated domain, and let bSG\overline{b_{SG}^\star} be the upper Burnside–Stirling–Gautschi bound. The conjectured extension of the Burnside–Stirling–Gautschi bound. For all (x,α)D^1/2(x,\alpha)\in\widehat{D}_{1/2},

m^1/2(x,α)bSG(x+α).\widehat{m}_{1/2}(x,\alpha)\leq\overline{b_{SG}^\star}(x+\alpha).

Equivalently, the restriction x1x\geq 1 appearing in the preceding corollary should not be necessary. The claim is motivated by the numerical comparisons in the paper, and no resolution is supplied in the given text.

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Marc Schmidlin, “On Gautschi & Stirling Identities, Asymptotics and Inequalities for the Pi (or Gamma) Function”, arXiv:2601.21906 (2026).

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