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Source: China Western Mathematical Olympiad 2013, problem 4
August 21, 2013
floor functioncombinatorics unsolvedcombinatorics
Problem Statement
There are coins in a row, . If one of the coins is head, select an odd number of consecutive coins (or even 1 coin) with the one in head on the leftmost, and then flip all the selected coins upside down simultaneously. This is a . No move is allowed if all coins are tails.
Suppose coins are heads at the initial stage, determine if there is a way to carry out moves