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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2024 Paper 1 7 b iii Solution by
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Iterating the Gamma function recurrence gives a meromorphic continuationNear , the numerator is analytic and tends to . Exactly one denominator factor, , vanishes, while all other factors tend to the nonzero product . ThereforeThus . More precisely, the Gamma function residue at a nonpositive integer is . Taking large enough to put in the original right half-plane also shows that this continuation introduces no other finite poles.
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