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49th Mathematical Olympiad in Ukraine

Ukraine precalculus

Problem

Find all positive integer numbers such that the number is a period of the function .
Solution
is a period of the function if and only if for arbitrary real number . Putting we obtain that , since we have .

As thus the possible values for can only be numbers or . It is directly verified that the numbers and satisfy the same initial conditions.
Final answer
1, 7

Techniques

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