Taylor Expansion of arctan(x)
Here is a Taylor expansion of degree 10 of the arctan(x) function,
where x is near to a.
1 a 2
arctan(a) = ------ (x - a) - --------- (x - a)
2 2 2
1 + a (1 + a )
2
1 a
- ------ + 4 ---------
2 2 2
1 + a (1 + a ) 3
+ 1/3 ---------------------- (x - a)
2
1 + a
2
a (- 1 + 3 a ) a
2 --------- - 2 --------------
2 2 2 3
(1 + a ) (1 + a ) 4
+ 1/4 ------------------------------ (x - a)
2
1 + a
2 2 2
- 1 + 3 a a (- 1 + a )
- ---------- + 8 -------------
2 3 2 4
(1 + a ) (1 + a ) 5
+ 1/5 ------------------------------ (x - a)
2
1 + a
2 2 4
a (- 1 + a ) (1 - 10 a + 5 a ) a
4 ------------ - 2 --------------------
2 4 2 5
(1 + a ) (1 + a ) 6
+ 1/6 --------------------------------------- (x - a)
2
1 + a
2 4 2 4 2
1 - 10 a + 5 a a (3 + 3 a - 10 a )
- ---------------- + 4 ---------------------
2 5 2 6
(1 + a ) (1 + a ) 7
+ 1/7 -------------------------------------------- (x - a)
2
1 + a
4 2 2 4 6
a (3 + 3 a - 10 a ) (- 1 + 21 a - 35 a + 7 a ) a
2 -------------------- - 2 ------------------------------
2 6 2 7
(1 + a ) (1 + a ) 8
+ 1/8 --------------------------------------------------------- (x - a)
2
1 + a
2 4 6 2 2 4 6
- 1 + 21 a - 35 a + 7 a a (- 1 + 7 a - 7 a + a )
- -------------------------- + 16 ---------------------------
2 7 2 8
(1 + a ) (1 + a ) 9
+ 1/9 ------------------------------------------------------------- (x - a)
2
1 + a
10
+ O((x - a) )
Wasn't that fun?
Last modified on Feb 21, 1998 by
Jason Hildebrand
(jason@alumni.uwaterloo.ca)