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Students visit library with conditions

Source: Peru Ibero+Cono TST 2020 P1

September 11, 2023
combinatorics

Problem Statement

In a classroom there are mm students. During the month of July each of them visited the library at least once but none of them visited the library twice in the same day. It turned out that during the month of July each student visited the library a different number of times, furthermore for any two students AA and BB there was a day in which AA visited the library and BB did not and there was also a day when BB visited the library and AA did not do so. Determine the largest possible value of mm.