HMMT 二月 2016 · 冲刺赛 · 第 35 题
HMMT February 2016 — Guts Round — Problem 35
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英文原题
- [ 20 ] (Maximal Determinant) In a 17 × 17 matrix M , all entries are ± 1. The maximum possiblevalue of | det M | is N . Estimate N .
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An estimate of E > 0 earns 20 min( N/E, E/N ) points.2
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英文解析
- [ 20 ] (Maximal Determinant) In a 17 × 17 matrix M , all entries are ± 1. The maximum possiblevalue of | det M | is N . Estimate N .
⌊ ⌋
An estimate of E > 0 earns 20 min( N/E, E/N ) points.2
Proposed by: Evan Chen
Answer: 327680 · 216
n 1
This is Hadamard’s maximal determinant problem. There’s an upper bound of n which empirically 2
seems to give reasonably good estimates, but in fact this is open for general n .