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Originally Posted by Ether
Just for fun, here's a graph ...
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It would be interesting to see a graph comparing the 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th order expansions of 1 - sinc(x) plotted vs. x, for 0 < x < 0.05. The range of most interest will be near 1/5280 ....
I'd do it myself, but have been unable to locate Maxima as an iPad app (yet).
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