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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2015 Prelims Mathematics II 2 a iii Solution by
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Put , so . By Bernoulli's inequality, , and henceMore explicitly, for choose an integer . For , the right-hand side is less than . Thus the geometric sequence has limit of a sequence zero, either directly by the definition or by the squeeze theorem.
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