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IMO 2002 — Complete Shortlist Question 16

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Question 16

Let $a_1$, $a_2$, ... be an infinite sequence of real numbers, for which there exists a real number $c$ with $0 \leq a_i \leq c$ for all $i$, such that

$$ \left|a_{i}-a_{j}\right|\geq\frac{1}{i+j}\quad\text{for all }i,j\text{ with }i\neq j. $$

Prove that $ c \geq 1 $.