APMO 2025 Problem 2
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Let and be positive real numbers. Emerald makes a trip in the coordinate plane, starting off from the origin . Each minute she moves one unit up or one unit to the right, restricting herself to the region , in the coordinate plane. By the time she visits a point she writes down the integer on it. It turns out that Emerald wrote each non- negative integer exactly once. Find all the possible pairs for which such a trip would be possible.
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\alpha + \beta = 2
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