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Integer and set

Source: China TST 2006

June 18, 2006
number theory unsolvednumber theory

Problem Statement

Given positive integers mm, aa, bb, (a,b)=1(a,b)=1. AA is a non-empty subset of the set of all positive integers, so that for every positive integer nn there is anAan \in A and bnAbn \in A. For all AA that satisfy the above condition, find the minimum of the value of A{1,2,,m}\left| A \cap \{ 1,2, \cdots,m \} \right|