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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 iii Paper 62 1 d Solution by
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The Weierstrass approximation theorem states that the polynomials are a dense subspace of in the supremum norm. By linearity and (c), uniformly for every polynomial . Given and , choose a polynomial with . The operator norm estimate in (a) givesFirst let , then . Hence for every continuous . This is an instance of extension of approximation operators from a dense subspace.
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