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The heavy-quark contribution to the polarisation function at higher perturbative orders is presently only known approximately. We scrutinise the accuracy of state-of-the-art approximations at three- and four-loop order. At three loops, we present for the first time a result with arbitrary numerical precision for general kinematics and compare to the best Pad\'e estimate. At four loops, we calculate the fourth (inverse) moment of the non-singlet heavy-quark vacuum polarisation in order to test the prediction for this moment based on Pad\'e approximation.
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