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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 124 2 a Solution by
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The event that infinitely many occur is . For every , the union bound and monotonicity of a probability measure giveThe right-hand side tends to zero as the tail of a convergent series. Therefore the first Borel-Cantelli conclusion isThis proves the Borel-Cantelli first lemma without any independence assumption.
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