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Dutch Mathematical Olympiad

Netherlands number theory

Problem

A teacher makes a big fraction with the numbers up to and including . She writes some of the numbers in the numerator and puts -signs between them. She puts the remaining numbers in the denominator, again with -signs between the numbers. In both the numerator and denominator, there is at least one number. She makes sure that the fraction equals an integer that is as small as possible. What is this integer?
Solution
Final answer
231

Techniques

Factorization techniques