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BD-BDMO 2021 Problem 8

    Shakur and Tiham are playing a game. Initially, Shakur picks a positive integer not greater than 10001000 . Then Tiham picks a positive integer strictly smaller than that.Then they keep on doing this taking turns to pick progressively smaller and smaller positive integers until some one picks 11 . After that, all the numbers that have been picked so far are added up. The person picking the number 11 wins if and only if this sum is a perfect square. Otherwise, the other player wins. What is the sum of all possible values of nn such that if Shakur starts with the number nn , he has a winning strategy?

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