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C. Maclaurin. A Scottish mathematician gained his master degree at age 17, and his major mathematics' work arise from his special knowledge in Newton's ideas and the formulation of Newton's methods.

However, C. Maclaurin also contributed to the astronomy science and helped to improve maps and invented some mechanical devices .

My mathematics python's programs is a set of Maclaurin's series to compute some of the most important functions in calculus.

Though, the computation of an infinite sum which give the value of a function in terms of the derivatives evaluated at a special case where x0 = 0,in contrast with Taylor series.

Maclaurin's series to approximate f(x) = 1/1-x

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#On the name of ALLAH and may the blessing and peace of Allah 
#be upon the Messenger of Allah Mohamed Salla Allahu Aliahi Wassalam.
#Author : Fouad Teniou
#Date : 06/07/10
#version :2.6

"""
maclaurin_series_one is a function to compute 1/1-x using maclaurin series
and the interval of convergence is -1 < x < 1 
1/x-1 = 1 + x + x^2 + x^3+ ...........
"""

def error(number):
    """ Raises interval of convergence error."""
    
    if number >= 1 or number <= -1 :
        raise TypeError,\
            "\n<The interval of convergence should be -1 < value < 1 \n"

def maclaurin_series_one(value, k):
    """
    Compute maclaurin's series approximation for 1/1-x
    """
    
    first_value = 0.0
    
    #attempt to Approximate 1/1-x for a given value
    try:
        error(value)
        for item in xrange(k):
            next_value = value**item
            first_value += next_value
       
        return first_value
    
    #Raise TypeError if input is not within the interval of convergence
    except TypeError, exception:
        print exception 

if __name__ == "__main__":
    
   print maclaurin_series_one(0.1,1000)
   print maclaurin_series_one(0.3,100)
   print maclaurin_series_one(0.7,100)
#####################################################################

#"C:\python
#1.11111111111
#1.42857142857
#3.33333333333

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Fouad Teniou (author) 13 years, 7 months ago  # | flag

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