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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2021 Prelims Mathematics II 3 c iii Solution by
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Start with all of and , namely , whose sum is . For in order, append copies of the tripleThis uses all occurrences of and all occurrences of , exactly once. Together with the initial terms, every original occurrence is used, establishing a rearrangement of a series. Its beginning isEach triple has sum zero. At its intermediate terms the partial sum is at most above . This bound tends to zero, so the whole series, rather than just the subsequence of sums at completed triples, has sum .
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