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CONO-SUR 1992 Problem 3

    Consider the set SS of 100100 numbers: 1;12;13;...;11001; \frac{1}{2}; \frac{1}{3}; ... ; \frac{1}{100} . Any two numbers, aa and bb , are eliminated in SS , and the number a+b+aba+b+ab is added. Now, there are 9999 numbers on SS . After doing this operation 9999 times, there's only 11 number on SS . What values can this number take?

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