also: テーラーてんかい
noun
Taylor expansion
Mathematical term for expressing a function as an infinite sum of terms calculated from its derivatives at a single point.
関数をテイラー展開して近似値を求める。
Approximate the value by Taylor-expanding the function.
Maclaurin expansion is a special case of Taylor expansion around zero.
From English 'Taylor expansion', named after the mathematician Brook Taylor.