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Given an integer n 2 n\geq2 , suppose that there are m n mn points on a circle. We paint the points in n n different colours so that there are m m points of each colour. Determine the least value of M M with the following property: for each m M m\geq M , given any such colouring of the m n mn points, there exists a set of n n points that contains one point of each colour, and with no two adjacent.


The answer is 3.

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