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warut_suk
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three points isosceles
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Each point of a circle is painted with one of three colours. Prove that there exist three points on the circle which have the same colour and are vertices of an isosceles triangle.

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See this discussion. It works for finitely many colors, no matter how many (in this case, we have three).

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Thanks, but are there any other ways?

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grobber wrote:
See this discussion. It works for finitely many colors, no matter how many (in this case, we have three).

did you complete your construction for circle? as i remember, you worked on line...
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Myth is out of here

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I attempted something there. Visit that thread again, and tell me what you think.

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