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We are going to use the function f of x equals natural logarithm of 1 plus x and the remainder term to estimate the absolute error in approximating the natural logarithm of 1 .05 with the third degree taylor polynomial centered at zero.
00:21
So we consider the function f of x equals natural logarithm of 1 plus x and so if we want to approximate natural logarithm of 1 .05, we see that this is the natural logarithm of 1 plus 0 .05 and looking at the definition of the function f this is exactly equal to f at 0 .05.
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So to approximate this number we get to approximate the function f at 0 .05.
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That's what we're going to do.
01:03
Then to find the taylor polynomial of degree three centered at zero we need the first three derivative of the function f and we also need the fourth derivative to evaluate the remainder.
01:18
So let's see the first derivative of f is one over one plus x which is the same as one plus x to the negative one.
01:29
The second derivative is derivative of this expression is negative one plus x to the negative two times the derivative of one plus x which is one.
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So the third, sorry here, the third derivative at x is derivative of this expression is two times one plus x to the negative three times the derivative of one plus x which is one...