On removable singularities around an specific point

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Learning about singularities, just to be sure that I grasp the content correctly I will ask the following.

Find the radius of convergence of the following function.

$$ \frac{cosz}{z^2-\pi^2/4}, $$

about $z=0$.

Since about $z=0$, the power series of the denominator is just a geometric series, then the singularities are removable, right? The radius of convergence is then infinite.

On the other hand, if I expand for example around $4$, then the singularities become poles, right? In this case the radius of convergence should be $3$??

Why a function can be analytic on different domains depending on where we decide to expand it? Is not counterintuitive?

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Is is an overkill, but the Weierstrass product for the cosine function gives $$ \cos(z)=\prod_{n\geq 0}\left(1-\frac{4z^2}{(2n+1)^2 \pi^2}\right) \tag{1} $$ hence $$ \frac{\cos(z)}{z^2-\frac{\pi^2}{4}} = -\frac{4}{\pi^2}\prod_{n\geq 1}\left(1-\frac{4z^2}{(2n+1)^2 \pi^2}\right) \tag{2} $$ is an entire function and the RHS of $(2)$ is uniformly convergent over any compact subset of $\mathbb{C}$.