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Combinatorics involving an operation

Source: IMOC 2017 C1

January 23, 2021
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Problem Statement

On a blackboard , the 2016 numbers 12016,22016,...20162016\frac{1}{2016} , \frac{2}{2016} ,... \frac{2016}{2016} are written. One can perfurm the following operation : Choose any numbers in the blackboard, say aa andb b and replace them by 2abab+12ab-a-b+1. After doing 2015 operation , there will only be one number tt Onthe blackboard . Find all possible values of t t.