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HMMT 2001 U22

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A man is standing on a platform and sees his train move such that after tt seconds it is 2t2+d02 t^{2}+d_{0} feet from his original position, where d0d_{0} is some number. Call the smallest (constant) speed at which the man have to run so that he catches the train vv. In terms of nn, find the nnth smallest value of d0d_{0} that makes vv a perfect square.

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4^{n-1}

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