Series Expansion of $f(z) =$ $\frac{e^z}{z^3}$

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I've come across this problem on my lecture book of Complex Variable Function,

Expand $f(z) =$ $\frac{e^z}{z^3}$ into a power series on the $0 < |z| < \infty$ domain

so far I've been learning about the Taylor and Laurent series, so I'm thinking to turn the function to this form

$\frac{e^z}{z^3}$ $= e^z .$ $\frac{1}{z^3}$ then by expanding the $e^z$ I get

$\frac{e^z}{z^3}$ $=$ $( z +$ $\frac{z^2}{2!}$ $+$ $\frac{z^3}{3!}$ $+ ... +$ $\frac{z^n}{n!}$ $). $ $\frac{1}{z^3}$

Is this correct? since I'm not really sure about the next step.

any idea of starting point on how to solve this problem would really help, thank you

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You are on the right track, but $$e^z=\color{red}1+z +\frac{z^2}{2!}+\frac{z^3}{3!}+ \cdots +\frac{z^n}{n!}+\color{red}\cdots ,$$ so it's

$$\frac{e^z}{z^3}=\left(1+ z +\frac{z^2}{2!}+\frac{z^3}{3!}+ \cdots +\frac{z^n}{n!}+\cdots\right)\cdot \frac{1}{z^3}.$$

Then just distribute the multiplication:

$$\frac{e^z}{z^3}=\dfrac1{z^3}+ \dfrac1{z^2} +\frac{1}{2!z}+\frac{1}{3!}+ \cdots +\frac{z^{n-3}}{n!}+\cdots .$$