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a hard problem

Source: bdmo higher secondary 2017

March 15, 2018
combinatorics

Problem Statement

a tournament is playing between n persons. Everybody plays with everybody one time. There is no draw here. A number kk is called nn good if there is any tournament such that in that tournament they have any player in the tournament that has lost all of kk's. prove that 1. nn is greater than or equal to 2k+1āˆ’12^{k+1}-1 2.Find all nn such that 22 is a n-good