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

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