CONO-SUR 2008 Problem 3
Two friends and must solve the following puzzle. Each of them receives a number from the set , but they don't see the number that the other received. The objective of each friend is to discover the other friend's number. The procedure is as follows: each friend, by turns, announces various not necessarily distinct positive integers: first says a number, then says one, says a number again, etc., in such a way that the sum of all the numbers said is . Demonstrate that there exists a strategy that and have previously agreed on such that they can reach the objective, no matter which number each one received at the beginning of the puzzle.
Dataset text AI-MO AoPS. Quoted with source.
Solutions
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