coordinate transformations formulas ... ?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

The ... means "and additional terms following the sequence of the prior 
terms". It is basically a short hand notation for a summation of n to 
infinity. So you if you want more terms you need to first infer the 
sequence from the prior terms like [2, 4, 6, ...] is a sequence and the 
next terms are  8, 16, 32, ...

Each additional term adds some additional fractional accuracy to the 
computation, at some point the fractional accuracy is beyond the point 
that it is significant to to our uses.

If you calculate just the 3rd term and see how big its value is it will 
give you the magnitude of the change it is impacting on the equation and 
the next term in the sequence will tern to be significantly smaller.

-Steve W.

Janeks Kamerovskis wrote:
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> M = a[(1 – e2/4 – 3e4/64 – 5e6/256 –....)j – (3e2/8 + 3e4/32 + 
> 45e6/1024+....)sin2j + (15e4/256 + 45e6/1024 +.....)sin4j – (35e6/3072 + 
> ....)sin6j + .....]
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