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Did you ever hear that joke about Taylor series?

I donโ€™t remember it exactly, but I can tell it pretty close.

This joke may contain profanity. ๐Ÿค”

The cocky exponential function e^x is strolling along the road insulting the functions he sees walking by.

He scoffs at a wandering polynomial for the shortness of its Taylor series. He snickers at a passing smooth function of compact support and its glaring lack of a convergent power series about many of its points. He positively laughs as he passes |x| for being nondifferentiable at the origin. He smil...

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