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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2020 ii Paper 1 17G a Solution by
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Let have vertices and edges. Its complement graph hasedges. If both graphs were planar, the planar graph edge bound would giveEquivalently, , whose larger root is . Thus an integer is impossible, proving that
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Assertion (iii) can be false. Let and . Part (ii) and the currying law for cardinal exponentiation giveBy Cantor theorem, , and therefore
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Assertion (ii) is always true. Since is infinite and ,where the last equality uses . Thus the cardinal exponentiation between two and the exponent gives
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Choose sets of cardinalities . Their cardinal arithmetic operations arewhere is the set of functions . The relation means that there is an injective function .
The currying law for cardinal exponentiation follows from the explicit bijectionand provesMoreover, is the cardinality of the power set of a set of size , so Cantor theorem gives
For completeness, identify each cardinal with its initial ordinal. Suppose that some infinite violates , and choose the least such cardinal. Well-order the pairs first by and then lexicographically. Every proper initial segment is contained in together with finitely many boundary pieces for some , and has cardinality below by minimality. The resulting well-order therefore has cardinality at most . The reverse inequality is immediate from , contradicting the choice of . Thus the square of an infinite cardinal satisfies .
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Since , the second local hypergeometric solution isUnder , it must be a constant multiple of the independent elementary solution . As , both and are asymptotic to one another, while . Matching the normalized hypergeometric factor, whose value at zero is one, givesConsequently the hypergeometric sine identity is
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The solution of with and is . Near , the map has the local inverse , so this solution is analytic in , corresponds to exponent zero at , and has value one there. Uniqueness of the normalized local solution of the Gauss hypergeometric equation therefore gives the hypergeometric cosine identityor, when on the chosen local branch,
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Put with . The chain rule givesand henceAfter substitution and division by , the ordinary differential equation becomesComparison with the Gauss hypergeometric equation gives, up to interchanging and ,
At and , the coefficient of has at most a simple pole and that of has at most a double pole, so both are regular singular points. The regular singular point at infinity criterion gives the same conclusion at infinity. The corresponding Papperitz symbol isIndeed, the exponent pairs are at zero, at one, and at infinity; their sum also satisfies the Fuchs relation.
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A suitable generalized linear model is a Gamma regression with logarithmic link:withThe gamma distribution is appropriate for a positive, continuous, right-skewed payment, and its variance function allows the conditional variance to grow like the square of the conditional mean instead of assuming constant variance. The logarithmic link function also guarantees positive fitted means and represents covariate effects multiplicatively, which accords with the Box–Cox transformation evidence for a logarithmic scale.
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Because
model2 uses a logarithmic transformation, the logarithm of the payment ratio is the difference of two predicted log payments. The cars have equal Brand and Bonus values and differ by one Kilometres level, so its fitted mean is the displayed mileage regression coefficient, .For two independent future payments, the prediction interval must include both the standard error of and two independent residual errors. The estimated variance of the predicted log ratio is thereforeUsing the residual degrees of freedom shown in the output, a 95% prediction interval for a ratio of log-normal responses isWith , this is approximately . The interval is wide because it predicts the ratio of two individual future payments; an interval for the ratio of their fitted mean responses would omit the term.
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The graph is a profile likelihood for the parameter of a Box–Cox transformation. Its maximum is close to , and the displayed likelihood interval contains zero but excludes . Since gives a logarithmic transformation whereas leaves the response unchanged up to an affine transformation, the plot supports fittingas the response in
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Kilometres is an ordinal categorical variable: its five levels have a meaningful order. Treating it as an ordinary factor would use four indicator variables and hence four unrelated regression coefficients. Converting the levels to numerical scores instead imposes a single linear trend across successive mileage bands. This is more parsimonious and gives greater precision when that trend is a reasonable approximation, although it also assumes that adjacent levels are equally spaced in their effect. Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2020 ii Paper 1 12F c ii by
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The partial recursive functions form the smallest class containing the zero function, successor function, and projection functions and closed under composition, primitive recursion, and unbounded minimization.
Fix a register machine with inputs. By the permitted result, its complete configuration after steps,is a recursive function of the inputs and time. The predicate saying that this configuration is halted is therefore recursive. Its halting time is the partial recursive functionwhere unbounded minimization is undefined when no halting time exists. Extracting the output register from a configuration is recursive, sois partial recursive. Hence every partial computable function is partial recursive.
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A register machine has finitely many natural-number registers, a finite set of labelled states, and instructions that increment a register, conditionally decrement and branch according to whether a register is zero, or halt. A program is a finite sequence of such labelled instructions, and a configuration records the current instruction together with every current register value.
Given inputs, place them in designated input registers and initialize the remaining registers to zero. The machine computes a partial computable function when it halts with output in the output register exactly for and runs forever otherwise.
To encode a machine, encode every instruction by a natural number using effective encodings of its opcode, register number, and target labels. Encode the resulting finite sequence by a Gödel numbering, for example through iterated pairing or prime powers. Effective decoding gives an enumeration of machine programs, so the unary function computed by program code may be denoted .
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