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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2001 iii Paper 1 2 b i Solution by
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Let , so and . Multiplication givesThe nilpotence also gives for every nonnegative integer , since all higher binomial terms vanish. Hence, for each positive integer ,These are unipotent matrices in SL2R. The integer is positive, since the displayed diagonal matrix is undefined at .
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