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    The Taylor series expansion provides an approximation of a function near a point using a polynomial of increasingly higher degrees. The remainder term is the difference between the actual function value and the approximated polynomial value. As the degree of the polynomial increases, the remainder term approaches zero, providing an increasingly accurate approximation of the original function over a limited domain near the point of expansion. For the function e^x, it can be shown that the remainder term is always zero, proving that e is transcendental and therefore irrational.

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    The Taylor series expansion provides an approximation of a function near a point using a polynomial of increasingly higher degrees. The remainder term is the difference between the actual function value and the approximated polynomial value. As the degree of the polynomial increases, the remainder term approaches zero, providing an increasingly accurate approximation of the original function over a limited domain near the point of expansion. For the function e^x, it can be shown that the remainder term is always zero, proving that e is transcendental and therefore irrational.

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    The Taylor series expansion provides an approximation of a function near a point using a polynomial of increasingly higher degrees. The remainder term is the difference between the actual function value and the approximated polynomial value. As the degree of the polynomial increases, the remainder term approaches zero, providing an increasingly accurate approximation of the original function over a limited domain near the point of expansion. For the function e^x, it can be shown that the remainder term is always zero, proving that e is transcendental and therefore irrational.

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    Taylor Series

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