From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!cw Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Using Taylor Series To Extrapolate Article-I.D.: eagle.435 Posted: Sat Jul 31 10:52:18 1982 Received: Sun Aug 1 01:35:42 1982 References: watmath.3155 Gardner said that you can "use a Taylor series to extrapolate the behaviour (sic: Canadian) of a function everywhere from its behaviour (sic: consistency) at a single point" anabdalllah asks how this can be. I am sure Gardner meant that some functions have this property, not neccessarily all, as the statement was used as an analogy to suggest that some universe models are deterministic though not all are. Charles