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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2018 Functional programming, design and analysis of algorithms 2 h Solution by
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The derivative relations and initial values give , , and . Integrating from zero yields and . Thus use mutually recursive lazy lists:
sinx, cosx :: Fractional a => [a]
sinx = integral cosx
cosx = minus one (integral sinx)Both heads are available immediately, and later coefficients depend on earlier coefficients of the other stream. The resulting formal power series are and . Their zero coefficients and alternating signs follow directly from the coupled recurrence relations, providing a coefficientwise proof without assumptions about analytic convergence.
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