[Math] Reciprocal Taylor series e.g. $\sin^{-1}x $

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I am completely stuck on how you might find the Taylor series expansions of functions such as $\sin^{-1}x $ and $\tan^{-1}x $ about $x=0$. They are undefined at $x=0$ and their derivatives do not exist at $x=0$ so I definitely can't use the standard Taylor series formula. I have thought about using the known expansions of $\sin(x)$ and $\tan(x)$ and treating them with a power of $-1$ in some way, but I don't know how I would do this as I only know reciprocal expansions for 2 terms (binomial expansion) and not for an infinite series!

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Hint

You can define a generalized expansion for $x$ near but $\neq 0$ by

$$\frac{1}{\sin(x)}=\frac{1}{x}\frac{1}{1-\frac{x^2}{6}+\frac{x^4}{5!}-...}$$

$$=\frac{1}{x}\left(1+\frac{x^2}{6}+\frac{7x^4}{360}+...\right).$$

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