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Chinese remainder to the rescue (Posted on 2020-10-31) Difficulty: 3 of 5
A lattice point in the coordinate plane with origin O is called invisible if the segment OA contains a lattice point other than O and A. Let L be a positive integer. Show that there exists a square with side length L and sides parallel to the coordinate axes, such that all points in the square are invisible.

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re: some progress Comment 3 of 3 |
(In reply to some progress by Steven Lord)

Having taken time to read the problem and do some digging, I believe the intent of this problem is to generalize on 

The invisible square: http://perplexus.info/show.php?pid=1211

My interpretation is that 'The invisible square' is the L=1 subcase of this problem and the goal is to show there are arbitrarily large squares of lattice points such all the points are invisible.

  Posted by Brian Smith on 2021-02-06 15:20:47
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