BxMO 2011 Problem 4
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Abby and Brian play the following game: They first choose a positive integer . Then they write numbers on a blackboard in turn. Abby starts by writing a 1. Thereafter, when one of them has written the number , the other writes down either or , provided that the number is not greater than . The player who writes on the blackboard wins. (a) Determine which player has a winning strategy if . (b) Find the number of positive integers for which Brian has a winning strategy.
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