Essay Archive - Gods Gift to Calculators: The Taylor Series
Gods Gift to Calculators: The Taylor Series
It is incredible how far calculators have come since my parents were in
college, which was when the square root key came out. Calculators since then
have evolved into machines that can take natural logarithms, sines, cosines,
arcsines, and so on. The funny thing is that calculators have not gotten any
"smarter" since then. In fact, calculators are still basically limited to the
four basic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division! So
what is it that allows calculators to evaluate logs, trigonometric functions,
and exponents? This ability is due in l....
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