An amusing problem about quadruples of real numbers

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Authors Umberto Zannier

Publication date 1988

Published in Ricerche di Matematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

cyclic differences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other combinatorial number theory (11B75)

Review text

For a vector \(v=(v_ 1,v_ 2,v_ 3,v_ 4)\in R^ 4\) put \(H(v)=(| v_ 1-v_ 2|,| v_ 2-v_ 3|,| v_ 3-v_ 4|,| v_ 4-v_ 1|)\) and \(m(v)=\min (k\geq 0,\quad H^ k(v)=0).\) A formula for m(v) is stated in Theorem 1. This is the solution of an extension of a problem from ``The U.S.S.R. Olympiade problem book.

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