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

For which values of positive integer $m$ is it possible to find polynomials $p,q\in \mathbb{C}[x]$ with degrees at least two such that $x(x+1)\cdots(x+m-1) =p\big(q(x)\big)$ ?

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