Tea Time Numerical Analysis · Problem 1.2.8

Preliminaries — Leon Brin

Mathematics — Numerical Analysis · octave-taylor-polynomial

Problem

Use an anonymous function to evaluate the Taylor polynomial

T_4(x) = 1 - \frac{1}{2}x^2 + \frac{1}{24}x^4

at the given value of

x

. ((a))

0

((b))

\frac{1}{2}

((c))

1

((d))

\pi