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BALTIC-WAY 1995 Problem 14

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There are nn fleas on an infinite sheet of triangulated paper. Initially the fleas are in different small triangles, all of which are inside some equilateral triangle consisting of n2n^{2} small triangles (see Figure 1 for a possible initial configuration with n=5n=5 ). Once a second each flea jumps from its triangle to one of the three small triangles as indicated in the figure. For which positive integers nn does there exist an initial configuration such that after a finite number of jumps all the nn fleas can meet in a single small triangle?

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n \neq 2, 4

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