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PutnamSuperchallengeIntegrals I: Feynman's Trick

Integrals I: Feynman's Trick · Superchallenge problem

Six people around a table each hold some coins, 1515 in total. A move lets a person with at least 22 coins give one coin to each neighbor. Which of these totals of ∑k⋅ck\sum k\cdot c_k (position k=1,…,6k = 1, \ldots, 6 times coins ckc_k) modulo 66 is invariant? Give the value of ∑kck mod 6\sum kc_k \bmod 6 if initially all 1515 coins are at position 11.