Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2018/iii/paper-211/4/a/solution

Since the initial value and increments are integers, is an integer. If , all three positive parts in the second difference are zero. If , the second difference is , including . At it equals . Thus
The original PDF has the first term ; the TeX's is an extraction error. This discrete call-price curvature identity isolates an individual integer state.

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