Computing the Euler-Mascheroni Constant
The Euler-Mascheroni constant is defined as the limit So an obvious way to try to calculate γ would be to evaluate the right-hand side above for large n. This turns out to not be a very good approach. Convergence is slow and rounding error accumulates. A much better approach is
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