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MathNet 2006 — Part 02 Question 39

Math Olympiad Vault · MathNet 2006 — Part 02

Question 39

The numbers $1, 2, \ldots, 2006$ are written around a circle. An allowed operation is to exchange two adjacent numbers. After a sequence of such exchanges, each number was located $13$ positions to the right of its initial position. We split the numbers $1, 2, \ldots, 2006$ into $1003$ disjoint pairs, arbitrarily.
Show that in one of the operations the two numbers of at least one of such pairs were exchanged.