What is the type of a function given by a Taylor series.

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Given a general function $f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ we might say it has type $\mathbb{R}^\mathbb{R}$.

But if it can be written as a Taylor series:

$f(x)=\sum\limits_{n=0}^\infty a_n x^n$

Then $f$ is completely determined by the set $\{a_n\}$. which is of the form $a:\mathbb{N}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$.

And so we have two different types which represent the same function $\mathbb{R}^\mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{R}^\mathbb{N}$.

Should we say that $\mathbb{R}^\mathbb{N} \subset \mathbb{R}^\mathbb{R}$? And that $\mathbb{R}^\mathbb{N}$ is the type of members of a set which contains all functions that can be written as Taylor series? What is the correspondence?

I think this would exclude functions like $1/\sin(x)$ which have an infinite number of poles. (If we let $\infty$ be a member of $\mathbb{R}$.)

This is confusing because it seems to suggest that we can have $f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ where $f\in \mathbb{R}^\mathbb{N}$ ??