However, this contradicts a more radical view, first proposed by Berry [@ber89] and later made “rigorous" by Olver [@olv90]. According to this view, which is now called Stokes smoothing in spite of the fact Stokes never held such a view, the Stokes phenomenon is no longer believed to be discontinuous, but undergoes a smooth and very rapid transition at Stokes lines. That is, instead of a step-function multiplying the subdominant terms in an asymptotic expansion as in Eqs. (\[sixtyfour\]) and (\[sixtysix\]), the Stokes multiplier is now reckoned to behave for large values of $|z|$ as an error function that transitions rapidly from 0 to unity as opposed to toggling at a Stokes line. The issue requires investigation here because if it is indeed valid, then it implies that one can never obtain exact values for a function from an asymptotic expansion as the Stokes multiplier cannot be made exact according to Olver’s treatment. Whilst an exact representation for the Stokes multiplier does not exist, the situation can be inverted by stating that one should not be able to obtain exact values for $\ln \Gamma(z)$ in the vicinity of any Stokes line because according to the conventional view originated by Stokes, 