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Writing Numbers on a Tape

Source: Tournament of Towns Spring 2016

February 22, 2017
combinatorics

Problem Statement

All integers from 11 to one million are written on a tape in some arbitrary order. Then the tape is cut into pieces containing two consecutive digits each. Prove that these pieces contain all two-digit integers for sure, regardless of the initial order of integers.(4 points) Alexey Tolpygo