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Let k be a positive integer. Prove that the number (4 \cdot k^2 - 1)^2 has a positive divisor of the form 8kn - 1 if and only if k is even.

Actual IMO 2007 Problem, posed as question 5 in the contest, which was used as a lemma in the official solutions for problem N6 as shown above.

Author: Kevin Buzzard and Edward Crane, United Kingdom

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Does there exist a positive integer n such that n has exactly 2000 prime divisors and n divides 2^n + 1?
Find all pairs of positive integers m,n\geq3 for which there exist infinitely many positive integers a such that \frac{a^m+a-1}{a^n+a^2-1} is itself an integer.

Laurentiu Panaitopol, Romania
Let p be a prime number. Prove that there exists a prime number q such that for every integer n, the number n^p-p is not divisible by q.
We call a positive integer alternating if every two consecutive digits in its decimal representation are of different parity.

Find all positive integers n such that n has a multiple which is alternating.
Let P(x) be a polynomial of degree n > 1 with integer coefficients and let k be a positive integer. Consider the polynomial Q(x) = P(P(\ldots P(P(x)) \ldots )), where P occurs k times. Prove that there are at most n integers t such that Q(t) = t.
Prove that there are infinitely many positive integers n such that n^{2} + 1 has a prime divisor greater than 2n + \sqrt {2n}.

Author: Kestutis Cesnavicius, Lithuania