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Plot of the natural logarithm of the factorial function (strictly speaking it's the gamma function)

Created with the following gnuplot script: 

set samples 1001
set terminal postscript enhanced color solid lw 2 "Times-Roman" 27
set output
set key left
set grid
plot [0:20000] lgamma(x+1) title "ln(x!)"

Shell script for conversion to PNG format: 

#! /bin/sh
set -e
TMPFILE=`mktemp gp2png-temp.XXXXXX`

gnuplot $1 |
gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=ppmraw -r200 -sOutputFile=- -f - |
pnmrotate -90 |
pnmscale 0.27272727272727 |
pnmtopng > $TMPFILE

pngcrush -brute $TMPFILE `basename $1 .gp`.png
rm -f $TMPFILE

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