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Chomsky

I removed the paragraph on Chomsky as I felt it inappropriate in an article whose main topic is the mathematical sense of 'order of approximation'. Zero sharp 05:03, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article needs work

While orders of approximation are used for data fitting, they are also used in theory work. The zeroeth order, first order, second order expansions are used when the relevant terms in the expansion series become significant enough to affect theoretical predictions. This should be made more clear. "First order" and "Second order" effects are often used to describe perturbations and deviations from linear models. We should have some text on this. --ScienceApologist 14:03, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is this article necessary?

I'm having a hard time understanding the purpose of this article. It has already been flagged for having no sources, the information in the article seems largely subjective, and if other people are like me then the information that they are actually looking for is in the Taylor Series article. 67.128.198.190 (talk) 20:32, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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 ==Article needs work==
 While orders of approximation are used for data fitting, they are also used in theory work. The zeroeth order, first order, second order expansions are used when the relevant terms in the expansion series become significant enough to affect theoretical predictions. This should be made more clear. "First order" and "Second order" effects are often used to describe [[perturbation]]s and deviations from [[linear model]]s. We should have some text on this. --[[User:ScienceApologist|ScienceApologist]] 14:03, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
+==Is this article necessary?==
+I'm having a hard time understanding the purpose of this article. It has already been flagged for having no sources, the information in the article seems largely subjective, and if other people are like me then the information that they are ''actually'' looking for is in the Taylor Series article. [[Special:Contributions/67.128.198.190|67.128.198.190]] ([[User talk:67.128.198.190|talk]]) 20:32, 8 March 2013 (UTC)