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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2004 ib Paper 1 5A ii Solution by
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The only pole is the simple one at , with . The point is an essential singularity, not another pole: multiplying by a nonvanishing analytic factor cannot remove its infinite principal part. For completeness its residue can also be read fromThe coefficient of is . This extra residue belongs to the essential singularity; it does not change the list of poles.
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