What is so hard about this IMO problem?
Over 90% of International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) participants scored zero marks for this question. But the solution is beautifully simple.
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An anti-Pascal pyramid is a finite set of numbers, placed in a triangle-shaped array so that the first row of the array contains one number, the second row contains two numbers, the third row contains three numbers and so on; and, except for the numbers in the bottom row, each number equals the absolute value of the difference…