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An essential singularity is an isolated singularity which is neither removable nor a pole; equivalently its Laurent expansion has infinitely many nonzero negative-power terms.
For the final unnumbered classification, the only possible finite singularities are the zeros of the denominator, namely and for integers . At zero,
so zero is removable, with extension value one. At each nonzero , has a simple zero, the other denominator factor is nonzero and the numerator is nonzero. These points are poles of order two, with leading coefficient .
At , the polynomial denominator has a simple zero. Since and the numerator is , these are simple poles. There are no essential singularities on and no other finite singularities.

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