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  2. Probability-generating function - Wikipedia

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    The probability generating function is an example of a generating function of a sequence: see also formal power series. It is equivalent to, and sometimes called, the z-transform of the probability mass function.

  3. Generating function - Wikipedia

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    Unlike an ordinary series, the formal power series is not required to converge: in fact, the generating function is not actually regarded as a function, and the "variable" remains an indeterminate. One can generalize to formal power series in more than one indeterminate, to encode information about infinite multi-dimensional arrays of numbers.

  4. Power series - Wikipedia

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    The partial sums of a power series are polynomials, the partial sums of the Taylor series of an analytic function are a sequence of converging polynomial approximations to the function at the center, and a converging power series can be seen as a kind of generalized polynomial with infinitely many terms. Conversely, every polynomial is a power ...

  5. Frobenius method - Wikipedia

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    Some solutions of a differential equation having a regular singular point with indicial roots = and .. In mathematics, the method of Frobenius, named after Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, is a way to find an infinite series solution for a linear second-order ordinary differential equation of the form ″ + ′ + = with ′ and ″.

  6. Padé approximant - Wikipedia

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    For given x, Padé approximants can be computed by Wynn's epsilon algorithm [2] and also other sequence transformations [3] from the partial sums = + + + + of the Taylor series of f, i.e., we have = ()!. f can also be a formal power series, and, hence, Padé approximants can also be applied to the summation of divergent series.

  7. List of mathematical series - Wikipedia

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    An infinite series of any rational function of can be reduced to a finite series of polygamma functions, by use of partial fraction decomposition, [8] as explained here. This fact can also be applied to finite series of rational functions, allowing the result to be computed in constant time even when the series contains a large number of terms.

  8. Power series solution of differential equations - Wikipedia

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    In order for the solution method to work, as in linear equations, it is necessary to express every term in the nonlinear equation as a power series so that all of the terms may be combined into one power series. As an example, consider the initial value problem ″ + ′ + ′ =; = , ′ = which describes a solution to capillary-driven flow in ...

  9. Laurent series - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the Laurent series of a complex function is a representation of that function as a power series which includes terms of negative degree. It may be used to express complex functions in cases where a Taylor series expansion cannot be applied.