Problem 44492. Approximate the cosine function

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perspective-origin: 4px 8.5px; transform-origin: 4px 8.5px; ">x</span></span><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 52.5px 8px; transform-origin: 52.5px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style=""> to a precision of</span></span><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 2px 8px; transform-origin: 2px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style=""> </span></span><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 24px 8px; transform-origin: 24px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style="font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, &quot;Courier New&quot;, monospace; perspective-origin: 24px 8.5px; transform-origin: 24px 8.5px; ">0.0001</span></span></div><div style="block-size: 21px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-block-end: 9px; margin-block-start: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-inline-end: 10px; margin-inline-start: 4px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 2px; perspective-origin: 384px 10.5px; text-align: left; transform-origin: 384px 10.5px; white-space: pre-wrap; margin-left: 4px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-right: 10px; "><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 16px 8px; transform-origin: 16px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style="font-weight: 700; ">Hint:</span></span><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 93.5px 8px; transform-origin: 93.5px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style=""> You may wish to consider the</span></span><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 2px 8px; transform-origin: 2px 8px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style=""> </span></span><a target='_blank' href = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_series#Trigonometric_functions"><span style=""><span style="">cosine Maclaurin series</span></span></a><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; 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David Verrelli on 11 Jan 2018

Hello, Shaul Salomon. Besides the existing checking for 'forbidden' commands in your Test Suite, which can report false positives (e.g. discussion of "cosine" in comments), you could consider a more complicated regexp statement, or perhaps use the assessFunctionAbsence function described at https://au.mathworks.com/help/coursework/ug/assessfunctionabsence.html . —DIV

Dyuman Joshi on 21 Feb 2021

A temporarily fix has been applied to the test suite such that allows name of functions in the comments. A permanent solution will be employed soon.

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