Elliptic functions, residue computation, same zeros and poles

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Homework Statement



Hi,

I am trying to understand the attached:

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I know that if two functions have zeros and poles at the same point and of the same order then they differ only by a multiplicative constant, so that is fine, as both have a double zero at ##z=w_j/2## and a double pole at ##z=0##.

But I don't understand at all the idea before determining what the constant ##C## should be?
I thought that perhaps we had set the residues at the double pole ##z=0## equal, but this is given by:

##\frac{1}{2}lim_{z \to 0} \frac{d}{dz}(z^2f(z)) ##,

whereas it looks like we've compared

##lim_{z \to 0} z^{2} f(z) ##,

so unless we have some reason to take the derivative outside the limit or something, I don't understand what we've done, and even whether my thoughts are on the right track and the residues are being compared?

Many thanks in advance.

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