Combinatorics involving an operation
Source: IMOC 2017 C1
January 23, 2021
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Problem Statement
On a blackboard , the 2016 numbers are written.
One can perfurm the following operation : Choose any numbers in the blackboard, say and and replace them by .
After doing 2015 operation , there will only be one number Onthe blackboard .
Find all possible values of .