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A Taylor expansion is a local representation of a function as a sum of a polynomial and a remainder term. The higher the degree of the polynomial is, the better the outcoming approximation of the function is \(f:(a,b)\rightarrow \mathbb {R}\).
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Baronti, M., De Mari, F., van der Putten, R., Venturi, I. (2016). Taylor Expansions. In: Calculus Problems. UNITEXT(), vol 101. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15428-2_8
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