I have no idea how to ask a question in here as I tried pasting my latex document in (it is only short) to demonstrate my issue but it does not look like anything else here and I don't want to piss anyone off.
Advice on that welcome.
Either way, I have a series of equations that need to be aligned. The first one is too long to fit on a single line so I want to put it as far to the left as possible. I have tried {flalign*}
but it has no effect.
There is one question here ( How to move the whole block of {align*} to the left? ) that I have pasted into a new document and it works.
However when I paste my equations into this document in place of what is between \begin{flalign*}
and \end{flalign*}
and nothing changes.
I have inserted &
at he end of the line both with and without \\[1.5ex]
Nothing seems to work.
Once I get the align issue sorted I'll also need to think about splitting right aligning the latter part of the first equation.
Any ideas?
Thanks and apologies in advance.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{leftidx}
\usepackage[none]{hyphenat}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{nicefrac}
\raggedright
\doublespacing
\pagestyle{myheadings}
\markright{Jesmond Jester\hfill MST124 TMA 04\hfill}
\author{JesmondJester}
\title{TMA 04}
\begin{document}
\setlength{\abovedisplayskip}{0pt}
\setlength{\belowdisplayskip}{0pt}
\Large
\maketitle
\newcommand{\degrees}{\ensuremath{^\circ}}
\begin{align*}% this is centered
a &=b
\end{align*}
%
\begin{flalign*}
a&=b&\\% Need this tailing alignment char to get all the way left
\end{flalign*}
\begin{flalign*}
&=1+\left(-\tfrac{3}{5}\right)x+\frac{\left(-\frac{3}{5}\right)\left(-\frac{8}{5}\right)}{2!}x^2+\frac{\left(-\frac{3}{5}\right)\left(-\frac{8}{5}\right)\left(-\frac{13}{5}\right)}{3!}x^3+\\ \frac{\left(-\frac{3}{5}\right)\left(-\frac{8}{5}\right)\left(-\frac{13}{5}\right)\left(-\frac{18}{5}\right)}{4!}x^4+...&\\[1.5ex]
&=1-\frac{3}{5}x+\frac{3\times8}{5^2\times2!}x^2-\frac{3\times8\times13}{5^3\times3!}x^3+\frac{3\times8\times13\times18}{5^4\times4!}x^4-&\\[1.5ex]
&=1-\frac{3}{5}x+\frac{12}{25}x^2-\frac{52}{125}x^3+\frac{234}{625}x^4-...&\\
\end{flalign*}
\end{document}
{}
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