Fooled by the Taylor Series
A Comparison with Padé Approximants
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4 min readJan 1, 2022
The Problem with the Taylor Series
Suppose we have a function, f(x). The goal of the Taylor series is to get an approximation of f(x) as a sum of increasing order polynomials. This is useful because we’re very familiar with how to handle polynomial expressions, so it can make complicated functions easier to…