
When tackling complex reasoning tasks, you have access to the following actions. Use them as needed to progress through your thought process.

[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

[ACTION NAME]

# Your action step 1

# Your action step 2

# Your action step 3

...

Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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Participants to an olympiad worked on  $n$  problems. Each problem was worth a <span style="color:#FF0000">positive </span>integer number of points, determined by the jury. A contestant gets  $0$  points for a wrong answer, and all points for a correct answer to a problem. It turned out after the olympiad that the jury could impose worths of the problems, so as to obtain any (strict) final ranking of the contestants. Find the greatest possible number of contestants.

Present the answer in LaTex format: \boxed{Your answer}
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