Need help in proving a math based problem.

Revision en1, by Watermelon, 2021-09-22 18:43:14

Hi, I was reading the editorial of the Half Sequence problem from recent cookoff. One of the statements has been left for readers to prove and I am unable to prove it. The statement is as follows.

"Observe that any single number less then 1e9 can be made up of atmost 9 distinct prime numbers. This means that if GCD([B[0], B[1], ..., B[N]) = 1, where N >= 9 then there must exist atleast one subset of length at most 9 whose elements have GCD=1. (Proof left as an exercise)"

I have trouble understanding the last line. Why must there exist that subset?

Tags #help, #proof, #math

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