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Bijection from natural numbers to integer lattice

Source: Serbian National Olympiad 2012, Problem 5

April 4, 2012
combinatorics proposedcombinatorics

Problem Statement

Let K\mathbb{K} be two-dimensional integer lattice. Is there a bijection f:NKf:\mathbb{N} \rightarrow \mathbb{K}, such that for every distinct a,b,cNa,b,c \in \mathbb{N} we have: \gcd(a,b,c)>1 \Rightarrow f(a),f(b),f(c) \mbox{ are not colinear? }