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Taylor polynomials practice question 12

Models of a swinging pendulum replace sin⁡θ\sin\theta by θ\theta for small angles in radians. Because sin⁡θ\sin\theta has no θ2\theta^{2} term, θ\theta is its second-order Maclaurin polynomial T2(θ)T_{2}(\theta). Find the best bound on the error ∣sin⁡(0.2)−0.2∣|\sin(0.2) - 0.2| that the Taylor remainder for T2T_{2} gives.

An exact fraction.

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