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be the circumcircle of isosceles triangle 
)
and 
lie on 
respectively such that 
.
and 
to the incircle of 
(different from
where 
.
cannot be a perfect cube of a positive integer.
such that 
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A person is locked in a room with a password-protected computer. If they enter the correct password, the door opens and they are freed. However, the password changes every time it is entered incorrectly. The person knows that the password is always a 10-digit number, and they also know that the password change follows a fixed pattern. This means that if the current password is 
and 
is entered, the new password is 
, which is determined by and (naturally, the person does not know or ). Prove that regardless of the characteristics of this computer, the prisoner can free themselves.
Proposed by Reza Tahernejad Karizi
and 
is entered, the new password is 
, which is determined by and (naturally, the person does not know or ). Prove that regardless of the characteristics of this computer, the prisoner can free themselves.Proposed by Reza Tahernejad Karizi
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possible passwords. Then there are 
possible patterns the computer could follow. Let 
be a positive integer. Assume we want to show that there exists a sequence of 
candidates for such a sequence. Each of the 
of these sequences (show this inductively). Thus it suffices to choose a 
And such an 
