ISL 2020 A5
A magician intends to perform the following trick. She announces a positive integer , along with real numbers , to the audience. A member of the audience then secretly chooses a polynomial of degree with real coefficients, computes the values , and writes down these values on the blackboard in non-decreasing order. After that the magician announces the secret polynomial to the audience. Can the magician find a strategy to perform such a trick? (Luxembourg)
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Official text: IMO 2020 Shortlist booklet, page 6.
Solutions
Official solution Solution 1 by the IMO Problem Selection Committee
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