Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-year-1-of-the-computer-science-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2015/discrete-mathematics-continuous-mathematics-and-probability/2/b/i/solution

For , the adjacent binomial coefficients obey
Since and , the sign is determined by the numerator:
The printed codomain is inconsistent with the displayed map: , and when is odd, . With the usual extension for , is a function , and for ; the positive range above remains unchanged. Without that extension, the natural domain is .[ref]

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