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Re: numerical computation contest


Just for fun, here's a graph showing the behavior of the 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th degree Taylor approximations for the sinc function from zero to 3pi/2 radians.

Here's Maxima code to generate the graph.

Maxima is free software with an active and helpful mailing list.


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