For a formal power series with zero constant term over a characteristic-zero field, its exponential is . Every coefficient is a finite sum because starts in degree at least . In finite characteristic, truncated computations require the factorial denominators that occur to be invertible.
To solve with , start with and update at successively doubled truncation precision. The correction removes the current logarithmic error to first order. This is Newton iteration applied to the formal power series exponential, using a formal power series logarithm.
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