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Find the number of arrangments in 100-gon

Source: Argentina IMO TST Problem 1

August 27, 2009
geometrygeometric transformationrotationcombinatorics unsolvedcombinatorics

Problem Statement

In the vertexes of a regular 100 100-gon we place the numbers from 1 1 to 100 100 , in some order, every number appearing exactly once. We say that an arrangment of the numbers is happy if for every simmetry axis of the polygon, the numbers which are from one side of the axis are greater that their respective simmetrics (we don't take into consideration the numbers which are on the axis) Find all happy arrangments (If two happy arrangments are the same under the rotation they are considered as only one)