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Re: Taylor series expansion about x=0 (MacLaurin series)



Try scilab, or octave. Both should do it. Scilab is probably easier

Conrado Badenas wrote:

> Does anyone know of a Debian package with which I could make Taylor
> series expansion of simple functions?
>
> I've tested Derive 3.0 (february 1995) for MSDOS, but it finishes the
> whole memory when trying to obtain the first four terms about x=0 of
>
> sqrt(x^6/36+(1+x/2-x/(1-exp(-x)))^2)*(12/x^2)
>
> I have obtained manually that it should be 1+119*x^2/60-991*x^4/504, but
> I would like it to be confirmed by a computer program.
>
> Thanks!
>
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