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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 224 4 c Solution by
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A distribution on must have . For , put and letFor any mass function with mean , Gibbs inequality givesThus the geometric distribution uniquely maximizes entropy. For , the only admissible law is the point mass at one, which is the limiting geometric case .
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