China Girls MO 2016/6

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China Girls MO 2016/6

Unread post by Thamim Zahin » Tue Apr 18, 2017 7:06 pm

Find the greatest positive integer $m$, such that one of the $4$ letters $\text{C, G, M, O}$ can be placed in each cell of a table with $m$ rows and $8$ columns, and has the following property: For any two distinct rows in the table, there exists at most one column, such that the entries of these two rows in such a column are the same letter.
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