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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 ia Paper 1 11D ii Solution by
Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-07
No: pointwise convergence need not be uniform convergence. The continuous function maps into itself and is strictly below the identity. Its iteration of a map givesFor every finite , these values tend to as , so . With , choosing gives . Thus no single iterate works for every starting point, although each fixed starting point tends to zero.
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