It is shown that leading corrections, to the ionization energy, o f many-electrons atom , can be expressed as leading corrections of initial slope of trial variational solutions o f the Thomas-Fermi equation. Some variational solutions with different initial slopes are compared. A com parison o f the results shows, that as far as the binding energies are concerned a trial function with its slope not close to the (negative) Baker's constant may not be suited.
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