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Tangent

The power series for the tangent is written as

 


Explanation

The derivatives of the tangent are










The point x = 0 gives tan (0) = 0, so












We substitute this in the Taylor series and find

  

so that

or written differently

 


General format

You can write the power series as a sum

where Un is the n-th up/down number. Or

where Bn is the n-th Bernoulli number.

 


Example 1

You can see that tan (0) = 0, because

tan (0) = 0 + 0 + 0 + ... = 0

 


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