MathDB
2019 BMT Individual 18

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January 9, 2022
number theoryalgebra

Problem Statement

Define f(x,y)f(x, y) to be xy\frac{|x|}{|y|} if that value is a positive integer, yx\frac{|y|}{|x|} if that value is a positive integer, and zero otherwise. We say that a sequence of integers 1\ell_1 through n\ell_n is good if f(i,i+1)f(\ell_i, \ell_{i+1}) is nonzero for all ii where 1in11 \le i \le n - 1, and the score of the sequence is i=1n1f(i,i+1)\sum^{n-1}_{i=1} f(\ell_i, \ell_{i+1})