What is the minimum integer , such that any subset of the five digit positive integers with , must contain 2 distinct elements and such that
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We consider the elements in S modulo 1 0 0 . There are 1 0 0 congruence classes mdoulo 1 0 0 , namely
0 , 1 , 2 , … , 9 9
If S contains at least 1 0 1 elements, by the Pigeonhole principle , there must be two elements x and y that belong to the same congruence class, in other words
⟺ ⟺ x ≡ y m o d 1 0 0 x − y ≡ 0 m o d 1 0 0 1 0 0 ∣ x − y
1 0 0 elements are not enogh, since we could have that every element belongs to a different class. Hence the minimum number of elements that satisfy the constraint is 1 0 1 .
More generally if the problem asked the same question with n ∣ x − y the answer would be n + 1