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Problem 7.9

12 November, 2015 - 11:22

Find the Taylor series expansion of log_{2}x around x= 1, and use it to evaluate log_{2} 1.0595 to four significant figures of precision. Check your result by using the fact that 1.0595 is approximately the twelfth root of 2. This number is the ratio of the frequencies of two successive notes of the chromatic scale in music, e.g., C and D-flat.