asymptotic expansion of the error function



On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu>wrote:

> What do you mean to "perform" the asymptotic expansion?  The formula you
> cite can certainly be expanded to any number of terms you want by simply
> specifying the upper bound, e.g.
>
>
Too bad this doesn't work:

taylor(erfc(z),z,inf,4)

like it does for other expressions like, for example,

taylor(sqrt(x^2+1)-x, x, inf, 4) ->

 1/(2*x)-1/(8*x^3)

Ray