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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2020 Paper 1 4 e Solution by
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For nonzero , the coefficients satisfy , so the analytic power series has radius of convergence . It converges absolutely also at , by comparison with .
The real logarithm in the prescribed solution requires . ConsequentlyThe series and the function itself have finite limits at ; in fact the logarithmic companion tends to . Its derivatives are singular there, so convergence of its values at the endpoint does not make it a classical solution through that singular point of a differential equation. At the logarithmic branch diverges. The independent analytic solution is a polynomial and has no such convergence restriction.
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