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Re: binomial expansion of quantity raised to power of 1/2

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  • Subject: [mg101644] Re: [mg101598] binomial expansion of quantity raised to power of 1/2
  • From: Adriano Pascoletti <adriano.pascoletti at dimi.uniud.it>
  • Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:50:49 -0400 (EDT)
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Refine[Series[(s^2 - h^2)^(1/2), {h, 0, 4}], s > 0]
Adriano Pascoletti

2009/7/11 Roddye Davis <roddye at ca.rr.com>

> 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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