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Putnam 1957 B1

  • Session B

Consider the determinant of the matrix (aij)ij(a_{ij})_{ij} with 1≤i,j≤1001\leq i,j \leq 100 and aij=ij.a_{ij}=ij. Prove that if the absolute value of each of the 100!100! terms in the expansion of this determinant is divided by 101,101, then the remainder is always 1.1.

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