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Baby game
Source: 2022 Taiwan Mathematics Olympiad
2/19/2022
Two babies A and B are playing a game with
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bottles of milk. Each bottle has a maximum capacity of
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ml, and initially each bottle holds
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ml of milk. Starting from A, they take turns and do one of the following: (1) Pick a bottle with at least
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ml of milk, and drink half of it. (2) Pick two bottles with less than
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ml of milk, pour the milk of one bottle into the other one, and toss away the empty bottle. Whoever cannot do any operations loses the game. Who has a winning strategy?Proposed by Chu-Lan Kao and usjl
combinatorics
Taiwan