Problem

Source: Chinese Mathematical Olympiad 1998 Problem 3

Tags: number theory unsolved, number theory



Let $S=\{1,2,\ldots ,98\}$. Find the least natural number $n$ such that we can pick out $10$ numbers in any $n$-element subset of $S$ satisfying the following condition: no matter how we equally divide the $10$ numbers into two groups, there exists a number in one group such that it is coprime to the other numbers in that group, meanwhile there also exists a number in the other group such that it is not coprime to any of the other numbers in the same group.