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In this paper, the authors show some monotonicity and concavity of the classical psi function, by which several known results are improved and some new asymptotically sharp estimates are obtained for this function. In addition, applying the new results to the psi function, the authors improve the well-known lower and upper bounds for the approximate evaluation of Euler’s constant γ.
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Qiu, Sl., Zhao, X. Some properties of the psi function and evaluations of γ. Appl. Math. J. Chin. Univ. 31, 103–111 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11766-016-3272-8
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