Posts tagged remainder
Polynomial long division to simplify rational functions

Do you remember doing long division? Now you probably use a calculator for most division problems. We’ll have to remember all those long division skills so that we can divide polynomials. Think about dividing polynomials as long division, but with variables.

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How to find the error or remainder of a series

If you need to find the sum of a series, but you don’t have a formula that you can use to do it, you can instead add the first several terms, and then use the integral test to estimate the very small remainder made up by the rest of the infinite series. The sum of the series is usually the sum of the first several terms, plus a very smaller error that you can estimate.

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