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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 ib Paper 2 12 12.2A b ii Solution by
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If , let be the first nonzero Taylor term. Then and is real. But changes sign as , and for small the leading term controls the sign. This contradicts positivity in the upper half-plane. Hence .
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