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China Western Mathematical Olympiad

China geometry

Problem

Let be an interior point of the triangle . Prove that there exist positive integers and , such that
Solution
It is well-known that there are positive real numbers such that So for positive integer , we have Let , , where is the biggest integer which is less than or equal to , and .

Assume is an integer larger than . Then the sequences and are increasing, and This shows there exists infinitely many vectors such that whose endpoint is in a circle of radius . So there are two of the vectors, such that the distance between the endpoints of the two vectors is less than , this means there exists two integers , such that So, if we let , , , then are integers, and

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