Putnam 2009 B3
- Session B
Call a subset of mediocre if it has the following property: Whenever and are elements of whose average is an integer, that average is also an element of . Let be the number of mediocre subsets of . [For instance, every subset of except is mediocre, so .] Find all positive integers such that .
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Solutions
Human solution Solution 1 by Kiran Kedlaya and Lenny Ng
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