Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2008/iii/paper-25/5/b/solution

Take , and . This projective cuspidal cubic is irreducible and meets only at . At , the derivative with respect to is , so is smooth. In the affine chart , it is , and is , so . Multiplicity is linear in the divisor , giving

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