n varies from 0 to 36.

As n becomes larger and there are more terms in the

Taylor polynomial, the Taylor polynomial comes to "look" more like the original
function. In other words, it becomes a progressively better approximation of
the function; it becomes more accurate.
How does one construct a Taylor series? As mentioned, Taylor series can be
used to approximate infinitely differentiable functions. A Taylor polynomial, as
will be shown later in the More Mathematical Explanation, is actually
constructed according to the derivatives of a function at a certain point. The
key idea behind Taylor series is this: Derivatives, roughly speaking,
correspond to the shape of a curve, so the more derivatives that two functions
have in common at one point, the more similar they will look at other nearby
points.
Taylor series are important because they allow us to compute functions that
cannot be computed directly. While the above Taylor polynomial for the sine
function looks complicated and is annoying to evaluate by hand, it is just the
sum of terms consisting of exponents and factorials, so the Taylor polynomial
can be reduced to the basic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication,
and division. We can obtain an approximation by truncating the infinite Taylor
series into a finite-degree Taylor polynomial, which we can evaluate.
The Taylor series for sine may not seem very useful to us, since we are used
to hitting the sine function on our calculator which then spits out an answer.
But our calculators actually make use of similar series to approximate the
trigonometric functions, as well as other functions, to provide us with a
decimal approximation. Likewise, physicists often take measurements and
produce curves that do not clearly resemble a known function. However, they
can use Taylor series to come up with a working model, even if it is not exact