APMO 2022 Problem 4
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Let and be positive integers. Cathy is playing the following game. There are marbles and boxes, with the marbles labelled 1 to . Initially, all marbles are placed inside one box. Each turn, Cathy chooses a box and then moves the marbles with the smallest label, say , to either any empty box or the box containing marble . Cathy wins if at any point there is a box containing only marble . Determine all pairs of integers such that Cathy can win this game.
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n \leq 2^{k-1}
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