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Consider the function f(x) = sin(x). Suppose we want to approximate f 0 (0) by using...

Consider the function f(x) = sin(x). Suppose we want to approximate f 0 (0) by using a forward difference approximation and a stepsize of h. How small must h be in order to guarantee that the absolute error in our approximation is less than 0.01?

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