On a checkered paper, numbers , and are placed in 3 squares (one number in each), other squares are empty. It is permitted to perform operations of two types:
1) To choose 2 numbers and from 2 non-empty squares and to place the number in some empty square;
2) To choose 3 numbers , , and from 3 non-empty squares and to place the number in some empty square.
Prove that using these operations one can place a number in some square.