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list with powers of 2 - 2019 Ecuador Juniors (OMEC) L2 p5
Source:
10/24/2022
Bored of waiting for his plane to travel to the International Mathematics Olympiad, Daniel began to write powers of
2
2
2
in a list in his notebook as follows:
∙
\bullet
∙
Starting with the number
1
1
1
, Daniel writes the next power of
2
2
2
at the end of his list and reverses the order of the numbers in the list. Let us call such a modification of the list, including the first step, a move. The list in each of the first
4
4
4
moves it looks like this:
1
→
2
,
1
→
4
,
1
,
2
→
8
,
2
,
1
,
4
1 \,\,\,\, \to 2, 1 \,\,\,\, \,\,\,\, \to 4, 1, 2 \,\,\,\, \,\,\,\, \to 8, 2, 1, 4
1
→
2
,
1
→
4
,
1
,
2
→
8
,
2
,
1
,
4
Daniel plans to carry out operations until his plane arrives, but he is worried let the list grow too. After
2020
2020
2020
moves, what is the sum of the first
1010
1010
1010
numbers?
number theory