Tangent plane examples
1. The surface 
and its tangent plane at (.1,0):
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This should look like what we expect for a tangent plane.
2. Here is a somewhat different example. The graph is 
(and 
Checking by the definition, we can see 
and 
But here the "tangent plane" does not match the shape of the graph very well near (0,0):
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