This paper presents an approximate expression to transmission capacity of ad hoc networks by using stochastic geometry. For there is no general close-form expression to the transmission capacity of ad hoc networks, by using Taylor series, we obtain the exact series expression to transmission ca- pacity first, then we take partial summation to yield an n-th order approximate expression. Further- more, compared with the exact expression under a special case, the accuracy of the n-th order ap- proximation has been studied. The numerical results show that the accuracy of the approximation is mainly determined by the order n, and a high accuracy can be obtained when the node density or the outage constraint is close to zero.