Call a word forming by alphabetical small letters and a periodic word arranging by a certain word more than two times repeatedly.For example kyonkyon is eight-letter periodic word. Given two words which have the same number of letters and have a different first letter, if you will remove the letter, and will be same word.Prove that either or is not periodic.
JMO 1993
Japan Mathematical Olympiad 1993.
Other problems
Denote by the largest odd divisor of positive integers and define as follows.
Prove that there existed infinitely positive integers such that
students took an exam with problems. Each student solved a half of the problem and the number of person those who solved the problem is equal for each problem.For any two students exactly three problems could be solved by the two persons. Find all pairs of satisfying this condition, then show an example to prove that it is possiible the case in terms of as follows: Note that every student solve or don't solve .
Given five radii of a sphere no three of these radii are on a same plane. Choose a pair to endpoint from each radius Find the number of choices such that five points are in a hemisphere among 32 choices of an endpoint.
Prove that there existed a positive number irrelevant to and satisfying the following condition.
Condition: For arbiterary positive numbers and arbiterary real numbers the following inequality holds.