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Consider the power series f(x) =x + x2/2 + x3/3 + x4/4 +··· (a) What is...

Consider the power series f(x) =x + x2/2 + x3/3 + x4/4 +···

(a) What is the interval of convergence of this series?

(b) Differentiate this series term by term and compare the result to one of the series that we found in the lecture to find the closed form of the series f(x).

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