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Analyzing the decay rate of Taylor series coefficients when high-order derivatives are intractable

This could be a soft question. I am trying to show that the $n$-th Taylor series coefficient of a function is $O(n^{-5/2})$. However, because the function is a function composition of another function ...
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Complexity of calculating $f^{(n)}(0)$/extracting a coefficient of a functions taylor-series

Many combinatorial problems can be solved using generating functions. In such a case, we obtain a function $f(x)$, which (for usual) has a taylor-expansion: $$ f(x) = \sum_{n\ge 0 } a_n x^n $$ So ...
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An interesting calculation of derivative

I was trying to get the probability distribution $p(n)$ from a generating function $G(s)$ like this: $G(s) = e^{a(s-1)^2}=\sum s^np(n)$ I need first to do Maclaurin expansion of the exponential and ...