Posts Tagged as ‘Taylor Series’

August 23, 2008

Accuracy of Taylor series

So how many terms should I use in getting a certain pre-determined accuracy in a Taylor series. One way is to use the formula for the Taylor’s theorem remainder and its bounds to calculate the number of terms. This is shown in the example below.

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August 19, 2008

Taylor series example

If Archimedes were to quote Taylor’s theorem, he would have said, “Give me the value of the function at a single point, and the value of all (first, second, and so on) its derivatives, and I can give you the value of the function at any other point”.
It is very important to note that [...]