Calculate limit using taylor series

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Homework Statement



Calculate: $$ \displaystyle \underset{x\to 0}{\mathop{\lim }}\,\frac{1-\cos \left( 1-\cos x \right)}{{{x}^{4}}}$$

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Using Taylor series I have:

$$ \displaystyle f'\left( x \right)=\sin \left( 1-\cos x \right)\sin x$$

$$\displaystyle f'\left( 0 \right)=0$$

but as you can see, now it turns very tedious to continue differentiating. Do I have to keep differentiating until I get something? Or is there any quicker way to compute this?

Thanks
 
There is. All you need to use is the Taylor series for cos(x). Also remember that since you're taking limit of x->0, you only need to carry with you the terms of the lowest non-trivial order.
 

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