Solution

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Take the inner product of the Fourier series with . Fourier orthogonality eliminates the constant, all cosine terms, and all sine terms except the th. The remaining squared norm is
so
For a square-integrable function, the calculation is justified by taking inner products of finite Fourier partial sums and passing to their mean-square limit.

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