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Past exam of the mathematical methods II course of the University of Oxford 2013 resit 7 Solution by
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Let . At the expansion point, the function and its first three derivatives have values , , and . Taylor's theorem therefore givesFor real , the magnitude of the omitted fourth-order remainder is at most , because the fourth derivative is another cosine and has magnitude at most one.
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