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BALKAN-SL 2018 C2

Alice and Bob play the following game: They start with two non-empty piles of coins. Taking turns, with Alice playing first, they choose a pile with an even number of coins and move half of the coins of this pile to the other pile. The game ends if a player cannot move, or if we reach a previously reached position. In the first case, the player who cannot move loses. In the second case, the game is declared a draw. Determine all pairs (a,b)(a, b) of positive integers such that if initially the two piles have aa and bb coins respectively, then Bob has a winning strategy. (Cyprus)

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