Pyramid with largest absolute value
Source: Ukrainian Mathematical Olympiad 2024. Day 1, Problem 8.2
March 19, 2024
combinatoricsconstructionabsolute value
Problem Statement
There is a table with cells in the first row, cells in the second row is a cell, in the third row, , cell in the -th row. The cells are arranged as shown below.https://i.ibb.co/0Z1CR0c/UMO24-8-2.pngIn each cell of the top row Petryk writes a number from to , so that each number is written exactly once. For each other cell, if the cells directly above it contains numbers , it contains number . What is the largest number that can be written in a single cell of the bottom row? Proposed by Bogdan Rublov