Putnam 2011 A6
- Session A
Let be an abelian group with elements, and let be a (not necessarily minimal) set of distinct generators of . A special die, which randomly selects one of the elements with equal probability, is rolled times and the selected elements are multiplied to produce an element . Prove that there exists a real number such that
is positive and finite.
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Solutions
Human solution Solution 1 by Kiran Kedlaya and Lenny Ng
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