From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using Calc
Date: Wed, 05 May 2021 17:37:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2csrhe6.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: trinity-78cfd456-b4fa-4e47-afb1-7908ff35f8fb-1620224173387@3c-app-mailcom-bs16
Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> writes:
> I have made some more progress with calc.
>
> A pending thing is how to use taylor because
>
> taylor(ln(x), x, 3) =>
>
> did not do anything. I might be missing something or the example is not a good one.
>
There is no Taylor expansion of the logarithm around x=0: it diverges there.
Try
taylor(ln(x), x-1, 3) =>
to get the usual expansion around x=1.
--
Nick
"There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache
invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler
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2021-05-05 5:58 Using Calc Christopher Dimech
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2021-05-05 10:23 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-05 10:31 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-05 10:42 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-05 11:15 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-05 11:21 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-05-05 11:31 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-05 11:39 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-05-05 11:48 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-05 11:58 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-05-05 12:42 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-05 13:00 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-05 14:16 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-05 21:37 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
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2021-05-06 7:18 ` tomas
2021-05-05 11:58 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-05 14:58 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-05 15:23 ` Christopher Dimech
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2021-05-05 17:33 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-05-05 18:52 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-05-05 20:46 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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2021-05-06 7:51 ` Gregory Heytings
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2021-05-06 4:33 ` Bob Newell
2021-05-05 14:52 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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