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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2001 Paper 1 5 b Solution by
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Use , so and . Reversing the integration bounds gives, without evaluating either side,For , the same change of variables givesso . These are legitimate transformations of improper integrals: is integrable near zero, and is integrable at infinity. In particular is absolutely convergent, so no cancellation of divergent endpoints is being assumed.
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