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Algebra Difficulty 7.0 National Olympiad, round 2 Find the answer Hungary

Find all triples (a,b,c)(a,b,c) of real numbers for which there exists a function f ⁣:Z+Z+f\colon \mathbb{Z}^+ \to \mathbb{Z}^+ satisfying af(n)+bf(n+1)+cf(n+2)<0af(n)+bf(n+1)+cf(n+2)<0 for every nZ+n \in \mathbb{Z}^+ (Z+\mathbb{Z}^{+} denotes the set of positive integers).

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