Sunday, 13 October 2013

a circle of n lights

Given a circle of n lights, exactly one of which is initially on, it is permitted to change the state of a bulb provided one also changes the state of every dth bulb after it (where d is a a divisor of n strictly less than n), provided that all n/d bulbs were originally in the same state as one another.
For what values of n is it possible to tum all the bulbs on by making a sequence of moves of this kind?

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