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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ia Paper 1 9E a Solution by
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The arithmetic--geometric mean inequality gives from onward. For ,so the tail decreases to a limit . Passing to the recurrence gives , hence .
For the subadditive sequence, , so it is bounded. The Fekete lemma can be proved directly here as follows. Let . Fix and write , . ThenThus , while the definition gives . Hence .
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