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USAMO 2003 — Days 1 and 2 Question 6

USAMO · USAMO 2003 — Days 1 and 2

Question 6

At the vertices of a regular hexagon are written six nonnegative integers whose sum is $2003^{2003}$. Bert may pick a vertex and replace the number there by the absolute value of the difference between the numbers at its two neighboring vertices. Prove that Bert can make a sequence of moves after which all six vertices contain $0$.