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What are the coefficients in the expansion of the following expression at x=0: (1 + x)^(-2) and how are they calculated?

Thank you for help.

 Oct 16, 2018
edited by Guest  Oct 16, 2018
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The most straightforward way to do this is to just do the division.

It's hard to show the process of long division on here.

 

1(1+x)2=11+2x+x2

 

and just set this up as a usual long division, if you go through it a few steps you'll see it's

 

11+2x+x2=12x+3x24x3+5x4+(1)k(k+1)xk, k0

 

hrm.. there might be another way to approach it that's pretty straightforward

 

k=0 xk=11x

 

11+x=11(x)

 

11(x)=k=0 (1)kxk

 

ddx 11+x=1(1+x)2

 

1(1+x)2=ddx(k=0 (1)kxk)=(k=1 (1)kkxk1)=k=0 (1)k(k+1)xk

 Oct 16, 2018
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Thank you very much Rom. The 2nd method is very easy to follow. Thanks again.

 Oct 16, 2018

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