# calculus

how do you find the sum of a series?

for example:

the series from n=0 to infinity of (-1)^n/n!???

thanks

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1. There is no single method to do them all.

In the case of that series, it looks like the Taylor series for e^x when x = -1, so the answer is 1/e = 0.35935....

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