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PAMO 2010 Problem 5

  • Day 2

A sequence a0,a1,a2,…,an,…a_0,a_1,a_2,\ldots ,a_n,\ldots of positive integers is constructed as follows:

  • if the last digit of ana_n is less than or equal to 55 then this digit is deleted and an+1a_{n+1} is the number consisting of the remaining digits. (If an+1a_{n+1} contains no digits the process stops.)
  • otherwise an+1=9ana_{n+1}=9a_n .

Can one choose a0a_0 so that an infinite sequence is obtained?

Dataset text AI-MO AoPS. Quoted with source.

Official text: Pan-African Mathematics Olympiad 2010 official paper, page 1.

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