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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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