Problem

Source: Iranian TST 2020, second exam day 2, problem 5

Tags: fractional part, algebra, Divisibility



For every positive integer $k>1$ prove that there exist a real number $x$ so that for every positive integer $n<1398$: $$\left\{x^n\right\}<\left\{x^{n-1}\right\} \Longleftrightarrow k\mid n.$$ Proposed by Mohammad Amin Sharifi