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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 ia Paper 1 3D Solution by
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A sequence is a convergent sequence with limit ifThe index may depend on , but must work for every later term.
Fix . Choose such that for , and putThis is a fixed finite number. For , the triangle inequality givesChoose sufficiently large that as well. The error is then less than , provingTaking successive arithmetic averages preserves the limit. This is the Cesaro theorem for convergent sequences: any troublesome initial terms contribute only a fixed numerator divided by .
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