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CAPS 2006 Problem 2

    There are nn children around a round table. Erika is the oldest among them and she has nn candies, while no other child has any candy. Erika decided to distribute the candies according to the following rules. In every round, she chooses a child with at least two candies and the chosen child sends a candy to each of his/her two neighbors. (So in the first round Erika must choose herself). For which n≥3n \ge 3 is it possible to end the distribution after a finite number of rounds with every child having exactly one candy?

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