- Session A
Let be the determinant of order of which the element in the th row and the th column is the absolute value of the difference of and . Find the value of .
William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 1969.
Let be the determinant of order of which the element in the th row and the th column is the absolute value of the difference of and . Find the value of .
The terms of a sequence satisfy Find the value of .
Let be an increasing sequence of positive integers. Let the series be convergent. For any number , let be the number of the 's which do not exceed . Find the value of \lim_{x \to \infty} \frac{k(x)}{x}.