The Taylor series expansion of a function about a point can be written as:
\[ f(x) = f(a) + f'(a)(x-a) + \frac{f''(a)}{2!}(x-a)^2 + \frac{f'''(a)}{3!}(x-a)^3 + \cdots \]
Where \( f'(a) \), \( f''(a) \), \( f'''(a) \), etc. denote the first, second, third, etc.
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