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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 iii Paper 25 5 b Solution by
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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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