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BALKAN-SL 2008 C1

    All n+3n+3 offices of University of Somewhere are numbered with numbers 0,1,2,…,0,1,2, \ldots , n+1,n+1, n+2n+2 for some n∈Nn \in \mathbb{N} . One day, Professor DD came up with a polynomial with real coefficients and power nn . Then, on the door of every office he wrote the value of that polynomial evaluated in the number assigned to that office. On the ii th office, for ii ∈\in {0,1,…,n+1}\{0,1, \ldots, n+1 \} he wrote 2i2^i and on the (n+2)(n+2) th office he wrote 2n+22^{n+2} −n−3-n-3 . [list=a] [] Prove that Professor D made a calculation error [] Assuming that Professor D made a calculation error, what is the smallest number of errors he made? Prove that in this case the errors are uniquely determined, find them and correct them. [/list]

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