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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2015 Discrete mathematics, continuous mathematics, and probability 4 c Solution by
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On an interval with , set . The product rule gives , and substitution givesThis is a separable differential equation. Since for real , separation loses no real constant solution:Thus the general solution on any interval avoiding zero and the poles of the tangent function isAt the original differential equation forces , but no real solution from this family extends over a whole interval through zero: encounters infinitely many poles as .
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