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Sum from selected rows and columns in over 1000
Source: Kvant Magazine No. 4 M2555
3/14/2023
In each cell of a
2019
×
2019
2019\times 2019
2019
×
2019
board is written the number
1
1
1
or the number
−
1
-1
−
1
. Prove that for some positive integer
k
k
k
it is possible to select
k
k
k
rows and
k
k
k
columns so that the absolute value of the sum of the
k
2
k^2
k
2
numbers in the cells at the intersection of the selected rows and columns is more than
1000
1000
1000
.Folklore
combinatorics
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