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Maclaurin Series

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• Subject: [mg48114] Maclaurin Series
• From: Xiaolei Li <xli10 at uiuc.edu>
• Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 00:12:15 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

hi,

i have some function defined in f1.  i'd like to define a new function,
f1t, that is the Maclaurin expansion of f1.  when i do something like:

	Series[f1[x], {x, 0, 10}]

it gives me the correct expansion.  but how do i define f1t?  i tried:

	f1t[x_] := Series[f1[x], {x, 0, 10}]

that doesn't work because it evaluates f1[x] before giving it to
Series[].  i also tried something like:

	f1t[x_] := Evaluate[ Series[f1[x], {x, 0, 10}] ]

but that didn't work either.  i'm a mathematica n00b.  any help is
greatly appreciated.  thx.

-- 
Xiaolei Li        |       xli10 at uiuc.edu       |        www.xiaolei.org

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