How to differentiate power series starting from 2 for e^x?

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The discussion clarifies that the power series expansion for e^x should indeed start from k=2 rather than k=1 when differentiating the function. This adjustment is necessary because the term corresponding to k=1 results in zero, which affects the overall series representation. The participants confirm that shifting the index of the sum notation correctly aligns the terms, leading to the accurate power series expansion of e^x as 1 + x + ...

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for d/dx(e^x) , the series should be start from 2 rather than 1 , right ? because when k = 1 , the circled part would become 0 , the series for (e^x) is 1 + x + ...

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The circled part is correct. There, the index of the sum notation is just shifted up by one, therefore the indices appearing in the term must be shifted down by one. If you compute the series terms by terms you should find that it's indeed the power expansion of ##e^x##.
 

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