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predicting function

Source: Iran 3rd round 2011-final exam-p7

September 13, 2011
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Problem Statement

Suppose that f:P(N)Nf:P(\mathbb N)\longrightarrow \mathbb N and AA is a subset of N\mathbb N. We call ff AA-predicting if the set {xNxA,f(Ax)x}\{x\in \mathbb N|x\notin A, f(A\cup x)\neq x \} is finite. Prove that there exists a function that for every subset AA of natural numbers, it's AA-predicting.
proposed by Sepehr Ghazi-Nezami