Maclaurin
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If x = a, then these polynomials are known as Maclaurin polynomials for f .
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In this project, we use the Maclaurin polynomials for ex to prove that e is irrational.
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Figure 6.7 The graph shows the function y = sin x and the Maclaurin polynomials p1, p3 and p5.
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Use Equation 6.11 and the first six terms in the Maclaurin series for e−x2 /2 to approximate the probability that a randomly selected test score is between x = 100 and x = 200.
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Colin Maclaurin and Brook Taylor, perhaps the best British mathematicians in the era of isolation from the Continent, discovered how to use calculus to rewrite functions in a totally different form.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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