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Lagrange Error Bound


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Taylor Series With Remainder Term

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Section 2, Page 2 to page 3

Finding the remainder after n terms of a Taylor series, with example of bounding the error for the Taylor series expansion of ex.

Course: 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2005
Instructor: Prof. Jason Starr
Prior Knowledge: Taylor Series (sections 2 to 4 of lecture 31) and Mean Value Theorem (section 5 of lecture 8)
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