Taylor Series expansion error

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PJS KUMAR
PJS KUMAR on 29 Sep 2018
Answered: Walter Roberson on 29 Sep 2018
I have the following code for taylor series expansion.
function [sol]=Taylor(fn,a,b,y0,h,nd)
syms x y(x);
xd = a:h:b;
yd(1) = y0;
for i = 1:numel(xd)-1
fstart= fn;
fold = fstart;
D(1) = subs(fold,{x,y},{xd(i),yd(i)});
for j=2:nd
fnew = subs(diff(fold,x),diff(y(x),x),fstart);
D(j) = subs(fnew,{x,y},{xd(i),yd(i)});
fold = fnew;
end
yd(i+1) = yd(i)+h*D(1)+h^2/2*D(2)+h^3/6*D(3)+h^4/24*D(4)+h^5/120*D(5);
end
sol=[xd' yd'];
end
It is giving correct output in one system. But giving the following errors in some other systems. Suggest me the solution to get the output.
>> syms x y(x)
>> f=x+y
f(x) =
x + y(x)
>> taylor(f,1,3,0.8,0.5,5)
Error using sym/taylor (line 99)
The value of 'x' is invalid. It must satisfy the function: @(x)isvector(x)&&isAllVars(x).

Answers (1)

Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 29 Sep 2018
You accidentally invoked MATLAB's taylor() function instead of your Taylor() function.

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