# Taylor Series. Reusing an approximation of a function

I have this function, $e^{-x}$ bounded between 0 and 1500 and I have an approximation by Taylor Series of the same function bounded between 0 and 0.5. I would like to express my function $e^{-x}$ bounded between 0 and 15oo in terms of the last approximation I described, what is bounded between 0 and 0.5. Does anyone know how I can do it? Thank you.

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– Jonas Meyer Dec 24 '10 at 9:05

Where is the Taylor series for (0,1500) centered? If at zero, it is the same Taylor series as for (0,0.5). But you really don't want a Taylor series for (0,1500)-it would take an enormous number of terms for any reasonable accuracy. Numerical Recipes (chapters 5 and 6) and all other numerical analysis books have suggestions for better models. Abramowitz and Stegun has a polynomial fit over (0,1) that is much more accurate than you need. Given what you had in the previous question, you can't represent $\exp(-x)$ for $x$ much over 11 because you will underflow.