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Tanned vectors

Source: ICMC 2022 Round 1 P5

December 4, 2021
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Problem Statement

A tanned vector is a nonzero vector in R3\mathbb R^3 with integer entries. Prove that any tanned vector of length at most 20212021 is perpendicular to a tanned vector of length at most 100100.
Proposed by Ethan Tan