Putnam 2025 A4

Session A

Find the minimal value of $k$ such that there exist $k$ -by- $k$ real matrices $A_1, \dots, A_{2025}$ with the property that $A_i A_j = A_j A_i$ if and only if $|i-j| \in \{0,1,2024\}$ .

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Solutions

Human solution Solution 1 by Manjul Bhargava, Kiran Kedlaya and Lenny Ng

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