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IMO 2011 Problem 2

  • Day 1

Let S\mathcal{S} be a finite set of at least two points in the plane. Assume that no three points of S\mathcal S are collinear. A windmill is a process that starts with a line ℓ\ell going through a single point P∈SP \in \mathcal S . The line rotates clockwise about the pivot PP until the first time that the line meets some other point belonging to S\mathcal S . This point, QQ , takes over as the new pivot, and the line now rotates clockwise about QQ , until it next meets a point of S\mathcal S . This process continues indefinitely. Show that we can choose a point PP in S\mathcal S and a line ℓ\ell going through PP such that the resulting windmill uses each point of S\mathcal S as a pivot infinitely many times.

Proposed by Geoffrey Smith, United Kingdom

Official text Transcription from AI-MO AoPS, checked word for word against the official paper. Quoted with source.

Official text: IMO 2011 official English paper, page 1.

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