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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 339 3 c Solution by
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Choose a sufficiently large positive for which throughout the interval. Expanding givesTherefore the coefficientssupply the requested representation, in particular with nonnegative coefficients. This proves positive Bernstein coefficients for a strictly positive polynomial. Strict positivity cannot generally be weakened to mere nonnegativity: a nonzero polynomial such as vanishes at an interior point, whereas every basis term is positive there, so no nonnegative-coefficient representation could vanish unless every coefficient were zero.
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