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HMMT November 2014 T7

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Sammy has a wooden board, shaped as a rectangle with length 220142^{2014} and height 320143^{2014}. The board is divided into a grid of unit squares. A termite starts at either the left or bottom edge of the rectangle, and walks along the gridlines by moving either to the right or upwards, until it reaches an edge opposite the one from which the termite started. Depicted below are two possible paths of the termite.

The termite's path dissects the board into two parts. Sammy is surprised to find that he can still arrange the pieces to form a new rectangle not congruent to the original rectangle. This rectangle has perimeter PP. How many possible values of PP are there?

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