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In the course of figuring out what the hell the parent comment was talking about and how one was supposed to do the calculation, I found this. p-values are much clearer for me now, thanks for bringing this up.
That is a really interesting paper.
Also, I found that the function R_k in Section 2 has the slightly-more-closed formula
) where P_k(x) is the first k terms of the Taylor series for e^x (and has the formula with factorials and everything). Just in case anyone wants to try this at home.