Talk:Orders of approximation
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[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
