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B.Math - Bishop
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Bishops on a chessboard move along the diagonals ( that is , on lines parallel to the two main diagonals ) . Prove that the maximum number of non-attacking bishops on an $n*n$ chessboard is $2n-2$. (Two bishops are said to be attacking if they are on a common diagonal).
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Explain how you got to that answer
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CatalinBordea   1
N Yesterday at 1:32 PM by Mathzeus1024
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a) Show that there exists a real number $ c $ such that $ f(c)-F(c)>1 $ if $ \lim_{x\to\infty } \frac{1+F(x)}{e^x} =-\infty . $

b) Prove that there exists a real number $ c' $ such that $ f(c') -(F(c'))^2<1. $


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CatalinBordea
Dec 7, 2019
Mathzeus1024
Yesterday at 1:32 PM
subsets of subset has same sum
61plus   3
N Saturday at 5:47 PM by sttsmet
Source: 2015 China TST 2 Day 2 Q2
Set $S$ to be a subset of size $68$ of $\{1,2,...,2015\}$. Prove that there exist $3$ pairwise disjoint, non-empty subsets $A,B,C$ such that $|A|=|B|=|C|$ and $\sum_{a\in A}a=\sum_{b\in B}b=\sum_{c\in C}c$
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Set $S$ to be a subset of size $68$ of $\{1,2,...,2015\}$. Prove that there exist $3$ pairwise disjoint, non-empty subsets $A,B,C$ such that $|A|=|B|=|C|$ and $\sum_{a\in A}a=\sum_{b\in B}b=\sum_{c\in C}c$
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mad to see the extreme beauty of the problem! :wacko: However I avoid details !
Note that in any 68 element subset atleast 9 '3-element' subsets have same sum . Left to show atleast 3 of them are pairwise disjoint . Take that 9 subsets . Now set a graph as follows -
The vertices are the subsets and two vertex have a edge between them iff their corresponding sets are disjoint !
If we have a triangle then done unless by turan's th. the graph has atmost 20 edges .So avg deg. 4 .
Take a vertex having deg. 4 [such a vertex readilly exists by php] There are 4 pts disconnected to it so the corresponding sets have a element common with the set.[Note that any 2 such 3-subsets have atmost 1 element common unless 2 sets are same]Take 3 sets and through out the common element to get 3 sets with cardinality 2 fulfilling the property ! :-D :-D
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OK my solution is the same as above so there is no reason to post.

I have the following remarks:
Remark1: There are not many approaches! Obviously one can see by the plurality of the solutions here (there isn't any :-D ) that there is only one way of successfully attacking the problem, and that's what makes it beautiful -all other paths fail!

Remark2: The motivation of the above solutions is pretty standard since the problem seems very misleading an general at first (sth common in olympiads) hence the problem creator had a simpler case in mind ;) (and thus the solution)
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