List of Maclaurin Series of Some Common Functions
- See also List of mathematical series
Several important Maclaurin series expansions follow. All these expansions are valid for complex arguments x.
Exponential function:
Natural logarithm:
Finite geometric series:
Infinite geometric series:
Variants of the infinite geometric series:
Square root:
Binomial series (includes the square root for α = 1/2 and the infinite geometric series for α = −1):
with generalized binomial coefficients
Trigonometric functions:
Hyperbolic functions:
The numbers Bk appearing in the summation expansions of tan(x) and tanh(x) are the Bernoulli numbers. The Ek in the expansion of sec(x) are Euler numbers.
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