HMMT 2021 C6
- Combinatorics
- Answer
A light pulse starts at a corner of a reflective square. It bounces around inside the square, reflecting off of the square's perimeter times before ending in a different corner. The path of the light pulse, when traced, divides the square into exactly 2021 regions. Compute the smallest possible value of .
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