A problem that seems deceptively easy. (1 Viewer)

[marsesbars]

Before you freak out...

To anyone reading this who is doing 4U this year:

DON'T PANIC!! These power series are not in the course!

 

[McLake]

Nice solution, marsbar ...

And for 2003 4U students, yeah it's not in the cause, but you should love maths enough to wan't to give this a go anyway ...

 

[Lazarus]

You'll do it in first-year uni calculus.

 

[McLake]

Originally posted by Lazarus
You'll do it in first-year uni calculus.

Oh goodie ...

 

[Mathematician]

hehe

I think i know what ur using.
ARE U USING THE WALLIS PRODUCT?
sinPix= .....................
?
Seen that in my cambridge math book

 

[BlackJack]

I feel stupid now for not having continued my accelerated maths stuff with Jeff Ball.

 

[Lazarus]

Re: hehe

Originally posted by Mathematician
ARE U USING THE WALLIS PRODUCT?

No... it's the series expansion (or Maclaurin polynomial - sometimes called a Taylor polynomial around a = 0).