Hello, On Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:13:24 PM UTC+1, asmeurer wrote: > > I agree. 1 + x + x**2/2 + O(x**3) is not a series. A series would be > something like summation(x**n/factorial(n), (n, 0, oo)). We don't have > anything like that implemented (though it would be awesome if we did). > +1. Extremely useful. Also: +1 on Laurent series!
The expansion 1 + x + x**2/2 + O(x**3) would be called "truncated Taylor series of order 2". > I think the answer is just to be clear in the docstring. > Yes. However, if in doubt, I think the standard maths terminology is to prefer over the terminology used in other computer algebra systems. Greetings Alex -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
