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This problem begins to motivate the existence of the Maclaurin's series in which any function which is well-behaved at the origin can be written as an 'infinite polynomial' or 'power series'. This iterative method is a numerical way of finding the coefficients of the polynomial, although calculus can be used in cases where the derivatives of the function needing to be approximated are known.