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Putnam 1990 B3

  • Session B

Let SS be a set of 2×22 \times 2 integer matrices whose entries aija_{ij} (1) are all squares of integers and, (2) satisfy aij≤200a_{ij} \leq 200. Show that if SS has more than 50387 (=154−152−15+2= 15^4 - 15^2 - 15 + 2) elements, then it has two elements that commute.

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