DE-BUNDESWETTBEWERB 2004 Problem 1
- Round 1
At the beginning of a game, I write the numbers , , ..., onto a desk. A move consists of
- selecting some numbers standing on the desk;
- calculating the rest of the sum of these numbers under division by and writing this rest onto the desk;
- deleting the selected numbers.
In such a game, after a number of moves, only two numbers remained on the desk. One of them was . What was the other one?
Dataset text AI-MO AoPS. Quoted with source.
Official text: Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik 2004 official paper, page 1.
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