Taylor Series

Here we will come up with a general method for writing a power series representation for a function.

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Using the fourth derivative gives,

It looks like, in general, weve got the following formula for the coefficients

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Next, the remainder is defined to be

With this definition note that we can then write the function as, 1/16/13

Theorem Suppose that,

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and so,

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Solution Here are the first few derivatives and the evaluations.

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In order to plug this into the Taylor Series formula well need to strip out the term first.

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