AlgebraDifficulty 7.0National Olympiad, round 2Find the answerHungary
Let n≥1 be a fixed integer. Calculate the distance infp,fmax0≤x≤1f(x)−p(x), where p runs over polynomials of degree less than n with real coefficients and f runs over functions f(x)=∑k=n∞ckxk defined on the closed interval [0,1], where ck≥0 and ∑k=n∞ck=1. Miklós Schweitzer competition, 2014 (5 pont)
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