The rows and columns of a table are numbered from to The cells of the table have been coloured with the following property being satisfied: for each the -th cell in the -th row and the -th cell in the -th row have the same colour. (The indices of the cells in a row are considered modulo .) Prove that the maximal possible number of colours is .
Proposed by Hossein Dabirian, Sepehr Ghazi-nezami, Iran
Proposed by Hossein Dabirian, Sepehr Ghazi-nezami, Iran