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The purpose of this exercise is to show that the error bound in part (b) of Theorem 9.6.2 can be overly conservative in certain cases.
(a) Use a CAS to confirm that
(b) Use the CAS to show that
(c) According to the error bound in part (b) of Theorem 9.6.2, what value of n is required to ensure that
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