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Combinatorics Difficulty 6.0 National Olympiad Prove it United Kingdom

We say that the positive integer n3n \ge 3 is happy if it is possible to arrange nn different positive integers in a circle such that two conditions are satisfied:

(a) If integers uu and vv in the circle are neighbours, then either uu divides vv or vv divides uu;

(b) If different integers uu and vv are in the circle but are not neighbours, then neither divides the other.

Determine, with proof, which positive integers nn in the range 3n123 \le n \le 12 are happy.

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