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Putnam 1998 B4

  • Session B

Find necessary and sufficient conditions on positive integers mm and nn so that ∑i=0mn−1(−1)⌊i/m⌋+⌊i/n⌋=0.\sum_{i=0}^{mn-1} (-1)^{\lfloor i/m \rfloor +\lfloor i/n\rfloor}=0.

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