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Examples

Use Taylor to compute the following Taylor polynomials. Use TayPlot to help you visualize your results.
1.
f(x) = x2, a=0, order 1, order 2, order 3.
2.
$f(x) = \cos(x)$ , a=0, $a=\pi$, order 4, order 5, order 6.
3.
$f(x) = \exp(x)$, a=0, order 8, order 13, order 21.


Christine M Palmer
11/21/1997