Math Link II

Here we show that

The MacLaurin Series, which is a special case of the Taylor Series, will be used to derive the above approximation.

Let us differentiate the function several times and evaluate the derivatives at

So the MacLaurin Series for the function is

If we assume that then only the first couple of terms are significant, for the other terms get small very fast.

Thus

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