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Beautiful Combinatorics from St. Petersburg 1993

Source: Kvant Magazine No. 1 2020, 50th Anniversary, M1397

March 10, 2023
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Problem Statement

An ant crawls clockwise along the contour of each face of a convex polyhedron. It is known that their speeds at any given time are not less than 1 mm/h. Prove that sooner or later two ants will collide.
Proposed by A. Klyachko