Fourier coefficients of $\cos (\frac{x}{2})$: Need help, cannot find my mistake

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I calculated the real Fourier coefficients of $f(x) =\cos (\frac{x}{2})$ but my result does not equal the result in the solution.

Can anyone please tell me what my mistake is?

(Not relevant to the calculation below: $b_n$ vanish because $f$ is even and $a_0=0$)

Here is my calculation:

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In the end, I simplify it to this expression:

$$ a_n = \begin{cases} \frac{4}{2\pi (1 - 4n^2)} & n \text{ even } \\ \frac{-4}{2\pi (1-4n^2)} & n \text{ odd}\end{cases}$$

Which again simplifies to

$$ a_n = \frac{(-1)^n 4}{2\pi (1-4n^2)} $$

And the solution states:

$$ a_n = \frac{(-1)^n 4}{\pi (1-4n^2)} $$

At first I thought I was using the wrong formula for the coefficients but for period $2\pi$ the formula is

$$ a_n = \frac{1}{\pi} \int_0^\pi f(x) \cos(nx) dx$$

So I'm just really confused. I did the calculation twice and got the same result in every step.