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by raphlinus·9y ago·view on hn ↗
Oops, yes, you're correct, I was typing from memory and didn't double-check.

And yes, the Taylor series is pretty good but you can usually squeeze a bit more accuracy-over-range by, eg, using an optimizer for the coefficients. Also, note that in your notebook you have x^3/5 but x^3/6 is probably what you wanted.