binomial expansion of quantity raised to power of 1/2
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- From: Roddye Davis <roddye at ca.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:22:55 -0400 (EDT)
I saw in an engineering survey book a binomial expansion of (s^2 - h^2)^(1/2) = s - (h^2/2s) - (h^4/(8(s^3))).... How was this result achieved??????? Thanks.
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