Here is my attempt to demonstrate that .
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3) , is a big natural number.
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In which step is the first error committed?
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From step 5 we observe that the last term is − 1 . However in step 7 if we expand out, we realise that the last term is now 1 , not − 1 . Hence first mistake in step 7