Taylor/Maclaurin Series
Infinite twins of familiar functions · BC Calculus · greeting
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What seriesis secretly sin x?Maclaurin = Taylorat a = 0
Owl: Push a Taylor polynomial to infinite degree and you get a Taylor series. Centered at 0, it's called a Maclaurin series — not a different creature, just Taylor with a = 0. What infinite series secretly is sin x? You'll recognize a pattern of odd powers with alternating signs. Once you know the series for eˣ, sin x, and cos x, you can manipulate them — substitute, differentiate, multiply — like algebraic clay. Caveat: the series equals the function only where it converges to that function — not automatically on all of ℝ for every f. We'll write core series, recognize them, and manipulate carefully.
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