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Proof Writing & Problem Solving · Medium problem

Four numbers stand around a circle: 1,5,11,201, 5, 11, 20. One step replaces every number, all at once, by the absolute difference between it and its clockwise neighbour, so (a,b,c,d)(a, b, c, d) becomes (∣a−b∣,∣b−c∣,∣c−d∣,∣d−a∣)(|a - b|, |b - c|, |c - d|, |d - a|). After how many steps are all four numbers 00 for the first time?

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