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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2001 ia Paper 1 11D i Solution by
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By continuity of at , for any choose such that whenever . Twice using the fundamental theorem of calculus gives the remainder asThe inner difference is and has modulus at most . Integrating this bound over the interval between and proves, for either sign of ,This is the local quadratic Taylor remainder estimate. The given may enter the bound on the second derivative; no stronger differentiability assumption is needed.
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