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DescriptionTaylorspolynomialexbig.svg
English: Plot of the exponential function and its 4th-order Taylor approximation, i.e. . I have made it with Gnuplot, using the following code, and then I have post-processed it with Inkscape
Source code
# set the outputsetterminalsvgenhancedfname"Times"fsize18setoutput"Taylorspolynomialexbig.svg"# axis propertiessetxrange[-4:4]setyrange[-1:20]setxzeroaxislinetype-1linewidth0.5setyzeroaxislinetype-1linewidth0.5setxlabel"x"setkey0.15,19plotexp(x)ti"exp(x)"withlineslinewidth3,\
1+x+(x**2)/2+(x**3)/6++(x**4)/24ti"4th-order Taylor"withlineslinewidth3
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