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lattice point visible from the origin

Source: 11-th Taiwanese Mathematical Olympiad 2002

January 23, 2007
geometrycombinatorics unsolvedcombinatorics

Problem Statement

A lattice point XX in the plane is said to be visible from the origin OO if the line segment OXOX does not contain any other lattice points. Show that for any positive integer nn, there is square ABCDABCD of area n2n^{2} such that none of the lattice points inside the square is visible from the origin.