BALKAN-SL 2017 C5
On a circular table sit students. First, each student has just one candy. At each step, each student chooses one of the following actions:
(A) Gives a candy to the student sitting on his left or to the student sitting on his right.
(B) Separates all its candies in two, possibly empty, sets and gives one set to the student sitting on his left and the other to the student sitting on his right.
At each step, students perform the actions they have chosen at the same time.
A distribution of candy is called legitimate if it can occur after a finite number of steps. Find the number of legitimate distributions.
(Two distributions are different if there is a student who has a different number of candy in each of these distributions.)
(Forgive my poor English)
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