Taylor Series Summation Too Large

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My goal is to run through the first 100 terms of the generalized taylor series for sin(x) for a user defined x value. However the code i currently have is giving an output of a huge number that is not the correct summation. Here is what i have:
x=sym('x')
x=input('Enter a scalar value for x: ')
n=0:99;
k=0;
for i=1:length(n)
y(i)=((-1).^n(i))*((x.^(2*n(i))+1)/factorial((2*n(i))+1));
k=k+n(i);
end
fprintf('Summation of first 100 Terms: %d\n',k)
I'm not really sure what is causing this to happen. Thank you to anyone that can help!

Accepted Answer

Mischa Kim
Mischa Kim on 6 Aug 2016
You need add up the y(i). In other words, use
k = k + y(i);

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 6 Aug 2016
Why are you bothering to calculate y(i) if you are going to ignore its value and base your output k strictly on the sum of the vector n?
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Madi  Macias
Madi Macias on 6 Aug 2016
Oh goodness i didn't even realize that's what i was doing. How should i fix this?

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