HMMT 2010 S8
- Team 2
- Answer
Consider the following two-player game. Player 1 starts with a number, . He then subtracts a proper divisor of from and gives the result to player 2 (a proper divisor of is a positive divisor of that is not equal to 1 or . Player 2 does the same thing with the number she gets from player 1 , and gives the result back to player 1. The two players continue until a player is given a prime number, at which point that player loses. For how many values of between 2 and 100 inclusive does player 1 have a winning strategy?
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