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A procedure is developed for the recovery of the inflationary potential over the interval that affects astrophysical scales (1 Mpc to 10^4 Mpc). The amplitudes of the scalar and tensor metric perturbations and their power-spectrum indices, which in principle can be inferred from large-angle CBR anisotropy and other cosmological data, determine the value of the inflationary potential and its first two derivatives. From these, the inflationary potential can be reconstructed in a Taylor series and the consistency of the inflationary hypothesis tested. Examples are presented, and the effect of observational uncertainties is discussed.
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