On the Power Series Expansion of the Reciprocal Gamma Function

Using the reflection formula of the Gamma function, we derive a new formula for the Taylor coefficients of the reciprocal Gamma function. The new formula provides effective asymptotic values for the coefficients even for very small values of the indices. Both the sign oscillations and the leading order of growth are given.Comment: Corrected a sign in equation (3.21) due to a minor error in (3.19) where the fraction was inadvertently inverted. Now the rough approximation provides an elementary proof that the order of the reciprocal gamma function is 1 and that its type is maxima

Robust Padé approximation via SVD

Padé approximation is considered from the point of view of robust methods of numerical linear algebra, in particular the singular value decomposition. This leads to an algorithm for practical computation that bypasses most problems of solution of nearly-singular systems and spurious pole-zero pairs caused by rounding errors; a Matlab code is provided. The success of this algorithm suggests that there might be variants of Padé approximation that would be pointwise convergent as the degrees of the numerator and denominator increase to infinity, unlike traditional Padé approximants, which converge only in measure or capacity