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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2021 Prelims Mathematics II 3 c ii Solution by
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Place the single term in first. For in order, append copies of the pairThis uses all of and all of exactly once, so it is an explicit rearrangement of a series. Its beginning isEvery completed pair leaves the partial sum at . Within a level- pair the partial sum differs from by at most . As this tends to zero, proving that the rearranged series has sum .
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