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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2019 Discrete mathematics, continuous mathematics, and probability resit 4 b Solution by
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For , apply Taylor's theorem to the sine about zero, retaining terms through degree four. Its fourth-order coefficient is zero, and its fifth derivative is the cosine function, givingThe cosine function is decreasing on , so . Multiplying by the nonnegative factor and adding proves both required bounds. At both are equalities.
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