Putnam 1994 A6
- Session A
Let be bijections of the set of integers such that for each integer , there is some composition of these functions (allowing repetitions) which maps 0 to . Consider the set of 1024 functions or 1 for . ( is the identity function and .) Show that if is any nonempty finite set of integers, then at most 512 of the functions in map to itself.
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