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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Four Numbers Game II

In an earlier post a question was left open. I will repeat the question here.

You start with n integers a1,a2,,an and in one step you perform the following transformation

(a1,a2,,an)(|a1a2|,|a2a3|,,|an1an|,|ana1|)


(|x|= absolute value of x)

You keep performing this operation till all the numbers become zero.

Find all n>1 (with proof), such that no matter which integers you start with, the numbers eventually become zero.

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