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What is the error of the truncated exponential series?

Subject: What is the error of the truncated exponential series?
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Date: 30 Sep 2006 02:29:10 -0700
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Summing from 0 to n the terms 1/n!, one gets an approximation for
e=2.71828...

Is there a formula for the difference between the result  (as a
function of n) and e?

Heinz


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