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Putnam 1962 A6

  • Session A

Let SS be a set of rational numbers such that whenever aa and bb are members of SS , so are abab and a+ba+b , and having the property that for every rational number rr exactly one of the following three statements is true: r∈S,  −r∈S,  r=0.r\in S,\; -r\in S,\; r =0. Prove that SS is the set of all positive rational numbers.

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