Solution

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The integer endpoint hypothesis is important. Let . The floor function gives , while because and are integers. Therefore the rounded Bernstein polynomial satisfies
For , the successive terms have ratio , so the geometric series estimate gives
The last inequality follows by maximizing at . The same bound holds on by reflection. On , each factor and is at most , giving . Thus
Here ; for the difference vanishes. Without the integer endpoint hypothesis the claim would fail: at the error is , independently of .

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