CMO 2018 Problem 1
- Paper
Consider an arrangement of tokens in the plane, not necessarily at distinct points. We are allowed to apply a sequence of moves of the following kind: Select a pair of tokens at points and and move both of them to the midpoint of and .
We say that an arrangement of tokens is collapsible if it is possible to end up with all tokens at the same point after a finite number of moves. Prove that every arrangement of tokens is collapsible if and only if is a power of 2 .
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