Maclaurin
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Graphs of the function and the Maclaurin polynomials appear in Figure 6.8.
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Figure 6.8 The function y = cos x and the Maclaurin polynomials p0, p2 and p4 are plotted on this graph.
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Solving this inequality for x, we have that the fifth Maclaurin polynomial gives an estimate to within 0.0001 as long as |x| < 0.907.
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We now show how to find Maclaurin polynomials for ex, sin x, and cos x.
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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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