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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 iii Paper 70 2 a Solution by
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The Bernstein polynomial is the positive weighted averageFor , the Bernstein basis weights are nonnegative and the binomial theorem gives . Hence . In particular,This is the contraction property of the positive linear operator on continuous functions defined by the Bernstein polynomial.
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