MATLAB: Taylor series while loop

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Thanks for the help!

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You code is quite good. You made three error:

the sign of term must change at each iteration
in term again, the power of x is odd (2*k+1)

term = (-1)^k * x^(2*k+1)/factorial(2*k+1);

Pn is the result you're calculating. It's what you want to display, not term.

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MATLAB: Convert the while loop into for loop without using the if statement

Although this seems like a homework question, however, you have shown some effort, so I will explain it a bit.

The original code uses a while loop to iterate over odd numbers and sum their values. Using for loop, you don't need to increment the counter manually. For loop will automatically increment the counter with specified step-size. For example,

for counter = 1:2:value-1
    % increment total
end

Remember, in this case, you don't need to increment the counter variable or check the if condition rem(counter,2) == 1 inside the for loop. You just need to increment the total variable.

MATLAB: Help with Taylor series

Dear Dav, here is the code to do it up to fifth order:

syms a b x y
y = (a + b * x)^(1/2);
TaylorSeries = taylor(y);
disp(TaylorSeries)

Also see http://www.mathworks.com/help/symbolic/taylor.html

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