alrite that worked thx, on to the next question.... "By hand, write out the 3rd Taylor polynomial for e^x about x = 3. Have Maple evaluate this polynomial at x = Pi. Write a line of Maple code to compute the Nth Taylor polynomial for e^x about x =3and use it to estimate e^pi correct to 25 decimal places." The problem i run into now if i using a similar equation as above for this taylor poly yields my answer to have both pi and e defined simply as pi and e instead of "number forms" also validating my equation as seen below really help me out, thx in advance again :) evalf(add((e^3(Pi-3)^k/(2*k), k = 0 .. 10000))