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MathNet 2010 — Part 03 Question 56

Math Olympiad Vault · MathNet 2010 — Part 03

Question 56

Six stacks $S_{1}, \ldots, S_{6}$ of coins are standing in a row. In the beginning every stack contains a single coin. There are two types of allowed moves:

Move 1: If stack $S_{k}$ with $1 \leq k \leq 5$ contains at least one coin, you may remove one coin from $S_{k}$ and add two coins to $S_{k+1}$.

Move 2: If stack $S_{k}$ with $1 \leq k \leq 4$ contains at least one coin, then you may remove one coin from $S_{k}$ and exchange stacks $S_{k+1}$ and $S_{k+2}$.

Decide whether it is possible to achieve by a sequence of such moves that the first five stacks are empty, whereas the sixth stack $S_{6}$ contains exactly $2010^{2010^{2010}}$ coins.