Lecture 4.
Taylor
Polynomials
Today looked at
approximating function values with Taylor polynomials. We did several examples,
ex,
sin(x)
and
cos(x)
all expanded about the value x=0.
Error
Term
I spoke briefly about
the error term when using a Taylor polynomial approximation. Following our text
book we will often use a fairly crude quantity to give e general sense of the
size of the error.
On Wednesday
I will be looking at algorithms to determine zeros of a function.
Posted: Mon - September 18, 2006 at 03:59 PM