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Forum Name: College math
Topic ID: 261
Message ID: 1
#1, RE: Calculus (Limits)
Posted by anshoo on May-07-02 at 01:53 PM
In response to message #0
use the following binomial expansion:

(x+h)^n = x^n + (x^(n-1))*n*h + (x^(n-2))*(n(n-1)/2!)*h^2 + ....

note that the above expansion holds true even if n is a fraction!