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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Think of The Taylor Series as a way of systematically approaching the estimation other more difficult functions by starting from a particular point and reconstructing a graph function by stacking polynomials/exponents centered on that point like legos until you get a close enough shape.

https://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/taylor-series.html