i dont quite understand the maclaurium series expansion coding

e(-x) @=.3

Answer 1

[James Tursa]

You can look at this link for a lot of information on series expansions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_series

In particular, exp(x) is there. You can use that information to get the series for exp(-x), and then you can code that up in MATLAB and plug in your value.