Solution

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This is a lacunary power series: the coefficient of is , while the other coefficients are zero. Along its nonzero coefficients,
The factorial dominates ; for example for large already suffices for this limit. Hence the coefficient limsup in the Cauchy-Hadamard theorem is one. The radius of convergence is .
Directly, for the consecutive term ratio is , which tends to zero; for the term magnitudes are at least and fail to tend to zero. The factorial is the exponent of , not part of its coefficient.

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