When is it necessary to expand out the first term(s) of a power series?

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I'm comfortable with the process of finding the Laurent series for a complex function, but in many of the answers from the textbook the first few terms will be expanded from it. Since I'm teaching myself this material I suspect it's something conceptual I'm missing.

For example this is an answer I got for a question

$$z^2sin(1/z^2)=\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{(-1)^n}{z^{4n}(2n+1)!},(0<|z|<\infty)$$

And this is the answer from the textbook

$$z^2sin(1/z^2)=1+\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{(-1)^n}{z^{4n}(2n+1)!},(0<|z|<\infty)$$

It seems to me that they are equal and the difference shouldn't matter, but this discrepancy is consistently coming up where the textbook's answers have a term or two expanded. So it feels like I'm missing something here.