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I am trying to rewrite sine series in a way to get rid of the factorial.

$\begin{array}{c c c c c} sin(x) & x & -\ {x^3 \over 3!} & +\ {x^5 \over 5!} & -\ {x^7 \over 7!}\\ & T_0 & T_1 & T_2 & T_3\\ \hline \end{array}$ If we number the terms from $0$ onward. I chose $3rd$ term over $2nd$ term to further simplify.

$ \begin{align} {T_3 \over T_2} & = {-{x^7 \over 7!} \over {x^5 \over 5!}} \\ {T_3 \over T_2} &= -{x^7 \over 7!}\ \cdot {5! \over x^5 } \\ T_3 & = -T_2 \ . \ {x^2 \over 7 \ \cdot 6} \end{align} $

But I wanna generalize it for $i$ so I eventually end up with something like this:

$ ^{(*)} \ \ T_i = -\ T_{i-1} \cdot {x^2 \over (2i+1) \ 2i} $ so that I can write it down programmatically in a recurrent algorithm: $ T = -T * (x*x)/(2i+1)/2i $ (-- from now on, it's magic that I'm not sure is correct --)

Problem is, when I get to the $ T_i = - T_{i-1} \cdot {x^{2i+1} \over (2i+1)!}\ \cdot {(2i-1)! \over x^{2i-1} } \\ \text{for $i = 3$ from the $T_3$} $ I don't know how to simplify from here. I know I need to end up with $^{(*)}$, but don't know how.

Ideas?


Solution from Jacob's hint:

$ \begin{align} T_i & = -\ T_{i-1} \cdot {x^{(2i+1)-(2i-1)} \over (2i+1)!}\ \cdot {(2i-1)! \over 1 } \\ T_i & = -\ T_{i-1} \cdot {x^{2} \over (2i+1)((2i+1)-1)!}\ \cdot {(2i-1)! \over 1 } \\ T_i & = -\ T_{i-1} \cdot {x^{2} \over (2i+1)(2i)!}\ \cdot {(2i-1)! \over 1 } \\ T_i & = -\ T_{i-1} \cdot {x^{2} \over (2i+1)(2i)(2i-1)!}\ \cdot {(2i-1)! \over 1 } \\ T_i & = -\ T_{i-1} \cdot {x^{2} \over (2i+1)(2i)}\ \cdot {1 \over 1 } \end{align} $

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    Just a remark: typesetting $X.-Y$ without parentheses looks quite badly (and many people consider it wrong and undefined). You can try `X\cdot\left(-Y\right)` with the output: $X\cdot\left(-Y\right)$2012-12-02

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Hint: $(2i+1)!=(2i+1)(2i)(2i-1)!$ and $x^{2i+1}/x^{2i-1}=x^2$.

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    Now I realized how easy it is! Goi$n$g to update with your solution.2012-12-02