Taylor Truncation Error

How many terms a Taylor series needs to hit a target accuracy, and what the remainder actually costs.

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Truncate the Maclaurin series for exp, sin, cos and ln at any number of terms and see the truncated value against the exact one, the absolute and relative error, every term of the running sum, and how many terms a chosen tolerance actually demands. MACLAURINTRUNCATIONSERIES

tolerance 1e-6 tolerance 1e-9 tolerance 1e-12
Truncated value
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Exact value-
Absolute error-
Relative error-
Terms needed
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Tolerance-
Next term magnitude-
Geometric ratio |a(n+1)/a(n)|-
Series terms and the running partial sum
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