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Cosine

The power series for the cosine is

 


Explanation

As the cosine can be differentiated continuously, you get







The point x = 0 gives cos (0) = 1 and sin (0) = 0 so







We substitute this in the Taylor series and find

so

 


Symmetry

The power series only contains even exponents, so there is the symmetry

what you can clearly see in the graphic

 


Example 1

You can see that cos (0) = 1, because

 


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