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Putnam 2022 B2

  • Session B

Let ×\times represent the cross product in R3\mathbb{R}^3. For what positive integers nn does there exist a set S⊂R3S \subset \mathbb{R}^3 with exactly nn elements such that S={v×w:v,w∈S}?S = \{v \times w: v, w \in S\}?

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