Example 4 Let have all coefficients positive, and . For all positive arrays satisfying: , find the minimum value of . (All-Russian Mathematical Olympiad problem)
Solution
Solve . If , then .
If are not all 1, then from we know that there must be one less than 1 and one greater than 1. Without loss of generality, let .
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Repeatedly performing the above transformation, we get . Therefore, the minimum value of is 1.
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