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coloring sides and diagonals of a regular polygon

Source: 10th QEDMO p8 Seniors (8-10. 12. 2011) https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c1512515_qedmo_200507

May 16, 2021
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Problem Statement

Find for which natural numbers nn one can color the sides and diagonals of a regular nn-gon with nn colors in such a way that for each triplet in pairs of different colors, a triangle can be found, the sides of which are sides or diagonals of nn-gon and which is colored with exactly these three colors.