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Accurate estimates of real Pochhammer products, lower (falling) and upper (rising), are presented. Double inequalities comparing the Pochhammer products with powers are given. Several examples showing how to use the established approximations are stated.

Zeta-generalized-Euler-constant functions, $$\gamma \left(s\right):=\sum _{k=1}^{\infty }\left(\frac{1}{k^s}-{\int }_k^{k+1}\frac{dx}{x^s}\right)$$ and $$\tilde{\gamma }\left(s\right):=\sum _{k=1}^{\infty }{\left(-1\right)}^{k+1}\left(\frac{1}{k^s}-{\int }_k^{k+1}\frac{dx}{x^s}\right)$$ defined on the closed interval [0, ∞), where γ(1) is the Euler-Mascheroni constant and $$\tilde{\gamma }$$ (1) = ln $$\frac{4}{\pi }$$ , are studied and estimated with high accuracy.

An asymptotic approximation of Wallis’ sequence W(n) = Πk=1n 4k 2/(4k 2 − 1) obtained on the base of Stirling’s factorial formula is presented. As a consequence, several accurate new estimates of Wallis’ ratios w(n) = Πk=1n(2k−1)/(2k) are given. Also, an asymptotic approximation of π in terms of Wallis’ sequence W(n) is obtained, together with several double inequalities such as, for example, $W\left(n\right)·(a_n+b_n)<\pi <W\left(n\right)·(a_n+b_n^{\text{'}})$ with $a_n=2+\frac{1}{2n+1}+\frac{2}{3{(2n+1)}^2}-\frac{1}{3n{(2n+1)}^{\text{'}}}{b}_n=\frac{2}{33{(n+1)}^{2^{\text{'}}}}{b}_n^{\text{'}}\frac{1}{13n^{2^{\text{'}}}}n\in \mathbb{N}$ .