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Maclaurin series

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noun

Mathematics.
  1. a Taylor series in which the reference point is zero.


Etymology

Origin of Maclaurin series

First recorded in 1905–10; after C. Maclaurin

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Find the Maclaurin series of cosh x = ex + e−x.

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If x = 0, then this series is known as the Maclaurin series for f .

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The Maclaurin series for this function is known as the binomial series.

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Here we use these properties, combined with the Maclaurin series in Table 6.1, to create Maclaurin series for other functions.

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Show that the Maclaurin series converges to cos x for all real numbers x.

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