TW-TST 1996 Problem 5

Dertemine integers $a_{1},a_{2},...,a_{99}=a_{0}$ satisfying $|a_{k}-a_{k-1}|\geq 1996$ for all $k=1,2,...,99$ , such that $m=\max_{1\leq k\leq 99} |a_{k}-a_{k-1}|$ is minimum possible, and find the minimum value $m^{*}$ of $m$ .