Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 ia Paper 1 12F a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 ia Paper 1 3F a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
For , the usual unit-circle area comparison, with angles measured in radians, gives . HenceThe cosine is a continuous function at zero, so the squeeze theorem yields the right-hand limit of a function . The quotient is even, so the left-hand limit of a function is the same. Thus the limit is .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 204 3 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Let be the event that the origin has an open graph path to the boundary of . The graph path can be stopped on its first boundary visit, so depends on only finitely many sites. Its probability is a finite sum of terms , and is therefore a continuous function of . Also , and the König infinity lemma gives . By continuity from above of a measure,The monotone coupling of Bernoulli percolation described below shows that is nondecreasing. For , its right limit of a function exists and is at least . For every fixed ,Taking the infimum in proves . This proves right continuity of percolation probability throughout ; at right continuity is understood relative to the parameter domain. The argument does not interchange two uncontrolled limits.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 2 3I a i Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
A Bernoulli source is a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables with a common probability mass function on the finite alphabet .
The source is reliably encodable at rate if, for each block length , there are an encoder with at most outputs and a decoder such that the block error probabilitytends to zero as .