Y by aidan0626
A group of
children sit in a circle facing inward with
, and each child starts with an arbitrary even number of pencils. Each minute, each child simultaneously passes exactly half of all of their pencils to the child to their right. Then, all children that have an odd number of pencils receive one more pencil.
Prove that after a finite amount of time, the children will all have the same number of pencils.
I do not know the source.


Prove that after a finite amount of time, the children will all have the same number of pencils.
I do not know the source.