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Putnam 2009 B2

  • Session B

A game involves jumping to the right on the real number line. If aa and bb are real numbers and b>ab > a, the cost of jumping from aa to bb is b3−ab2b^3-ab^2. For what real numbers cc can one travel from 00 to 11 in a finite number of jumps with total cost exactly cc?

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