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Re: Remove the higher order terms in series expansion

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  • Subject: [mg52836] Re: [mg52798] Remove the higher order terms in series expansion
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 05:59:36 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Hardly hiding at all!

Look in Section 1.5.10, "Power Series", of the Mathematica Book -- 
either the printed version or the on-line version you can access in the 
Help Browser.  The 6th example there shows how evaluating Normal at the 
value that Series returns does exactly what you want.

"Normal" is also mentioned in the page you see if you simply look up 
Series in the HelpBrowser's Built-in Functions.


highorder wrote:
> I guess this should be simple and hiding somewhere in the manual. Is
> there a quick way to remove the high order terms after using
> Series[f,{x,x0,n}] command? The problem comes from the output is
> actually given by:
> 
> expansion term + O(x^3);
> 
> the O(x^3) should be removed. I will keep trying but wondering if
> anyone has a quick answer.


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