Problem 55775. Taylor Series

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You can use a Taylor series to approximate common functions. The Taylor series for sin(x) is

Using only the first several terms in the series could get you a good approximation to the function.

Write a function that takes a point x at which to evaluate the sine function and a tolerance level that defines how close you want the Taylor series approximation to be to the actual value. Your function should output the approximate value of sin(x).

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