Year: 2001
Paper: 2
Question Number: 2
Course: LFM Stats And Pure
Section: Curve Sketching
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Sketch the graph of the function $[x/N]$, for $0 < x < 2N$, where
the notation $[y]$ means the integer part of $y$.
(Thus $[2.9] = 2$, \ $[4]=4$.)
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\item Prove that
\[
\sum_{k=1}^{2N} (-1)^{[k/N]} k = 2N-N^2.
\]
\item Let
\[
S_N = \sum_{k=1}^{2N} (-1)^{[k/N]} 2^{-k}.
\]
Find $S_N$ in terms of $N$ and determine the limit of $S_N$ as $N\to\infty$.
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