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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2015 Prelims Mathematics II 4 b i Solution by
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For any , rationalizing the difference of square roots givessince . Given , use uniform continuity of with tolerance to obtain . Whenever , the displayed estimate yields . Thus has uniform continuity on . The square root function is in fact Lipschitz continuous with constant on .
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