Maclaurin series
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Origin of Maclaurin series
First recorded in 1905–10; after C. Maclaurin
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The Maclaurin series for this function is known as the binomial series.
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Show that the Maclaurin series converges to cos x for all real numbers x.
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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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The series representations of π in the first two examples can be explained using Maclaurin series, which are discussed in the next chapter.
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Specifically, we look for the Maclaurin series for f .
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