Friday, March 18, 2016

Term 3, Weeks 1-2 Discussion (Series Convergence Tests)

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6 comments:

  1. I'm a little confused on Taylor Series... when do we use them? what are they? ahhh

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    1. We have not covered Taylor Series yet. They are a series of functions, as opposed to a series of numbers.

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  2. Is geometric the only series that we can find what number the series converges to? (a/(1- r))
    -Sarah Mostofizadeh

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    1. Also telescoping series. Aside from those two, NO other series can be computed analytically. Instead, numerical approximations are used.

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  3. For a telescoping series, if the numerator is 3 would you use 3 and -3 as the numerator when writing out the terms or would you use 1 and -1?

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    1. Think about how the terms of the series are formed.

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