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1.3. Truncation Errors: 1.3.1. Exercises: Following Are Some Known Results

This document discusses truncation errors in evaluating infinite series. It provides examples of common infinite series and their sums, including series for ln(2), π, π^2/6, and π^6/96. Tables show the partial sums and truncation errors for the first eight terms of each series. The document then asks to use these results to approximate ln(2) and π, and states the accuracy. It also provides the Taylor series expansions for e^x and sin(x) and asks to evaluate e^1/2 and sin(1/2) to ten decimal places using these expansions.

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1.3. Truncation Errors: 1.3.1. Exercises: Following Are Some Known Results

This document discusses truncation errors in evaluating infinite series. It provides examples of common infinite series and their sums, including series for ln(2), π, π^2/6, and π^6/96. Tables show the partial sums and truncation errors for the first eight terms of each series. The document then asks to use these results to approximate ln(2) and π, and states the accuracy. It also provides the Taylor series expansions for e^x and sin(x) and asks to evaluate e^1/2 and sin(1/2) to ten decimal places using these expansions.

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1.3.

Truncation Errors:

1.3.1. Exercises: Following are some known results about the sum of certain infinite series: Evaluate
the first eight partial sums and the corresponding truncation errors in each case and complete the table.
1 1 1 ( 1) n1 1 1 1 1 2
(a) 1       ln 2 (c) 1 2
 2  2  2  
2 3 4 n 2 3 4 n 6

1 1 1 ( 1) n1  1 1 1 1 6
(b) 1      (d) 1        
3 5 7 2n  1 4 36 56 76 ( 2n  1) 6 960

n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

( 1) n 1 tn 1.0000 -0.5000 0.3333 -0.2500 0.2000 -0.1667 0.1429 -0.1250


tn 
n Sn 1.0000 0.5000 0.8333 0.5833 0.7833 0.6167 0.7595 0.6345
S  ln(2) S  Sn 0.3069 0.1931 0.1402 0.1098 0.0902 0.0765 0.0664 0.0586

( 1) n1 tn
tn  Sn
2n  1
S  /4 S  Sn
1 tn
tn 
n2 Sn
S  2 /6 S  Sn
1 tn
tn 
( 2n  1) 6 Sn
S   6 / 96 S  Sn

1.3.2. Exercises: Using the results in each of the the previous table, obtain approximate values for

(a) ln 2 (b) 

State the accuracy of your answer in each case.

1.3.3. Exercises: Taylor series expansions for the functions e x and sin(x ) , together with truncation
errors are:
x x2 x3 xn e
(e) ex  1    
1! 2 ! 3 ! n! ( n  1) !
x3 x5 x7 x 2 n 1 ( 1) n sin( )
(f) sin( x )  x      , where  is some number in (0, x ) .
3! 5! 7! ( 2n  1) ! ( 2n ) !

1
Hence obtain, values of e and sin  correct to ten decimal places.
 2

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