Writing letters in grid
by egxa, Apr 18, 2025, 9:54 AM
Petya and Vasya are playing a game on an initially empty 
grid, taking turns. Petya goes first. On his turn, a player writes an uppercase Russian letter in an empty cell (each cell can contain only one letter). When all cells are filled, Petya is declared the winner if there are four consecutive cells horizontally spelling the word ``ПЕТЯ'' (PETYA) from left to right, or four consecutive cells vertically spelling ``ПЕТЯ'' from top to bottom. Can Petya guarantee a win regardless of Vasya's moves?
grid, taking turns. Petya goes first. On his turn, a player writes an uppercase Russian letter in an empty cell (each cell can contain only one letter). When all cells are filled, Petya is declared the winner if there are four consecutive cells horizontally spelling the word ``ПЕТЯ'' (PETYA) from left to right, or four consecutive cells vertically spelling ``ПЕТЯ'' from top to bottom. Can Petya guarantee a win regardless of Vasya's moves?
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points are marked, no three of which are collinear. All possible segments between them are drawn. Grisha assigned to each drawn segment a real number with absolute value no greater than 
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marked points, he calculated the sum of the numbers on all 
connecting segments. It turned out that the absolute value of each such sum is at least 
pairwise distinct complex numbers are written on a board. It turns out that there are exactly 760 ways to choose two numbers 
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Ways that differ by the order of selection are considered the same. Prove that there exist two numbers 
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is given. A cube with side length 
is made up of 
unit cubes, each of which is either black or white. It turns out that among any 
cubes that share a common vertex and form a 
cube, there are at most 
black cubes. What is the maximum number of black cubes that could have been used?
such that there exists a pair 
of positive integers, such that 
is not divisible by the cube of any prime, and 
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