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1985 AIME Problem 8

The sum of the following seven numbers is exactly 19: a_1 = 2.56, a_2 = 2.61, a_3 = 2.65, a_4 = 2.71, a_5 = 2.79, a_6 = 2.82, a_7 = 2.86. It is desired to replace each a_i by an integer approximation A_i, 1\le i \le 7, so that the sum of the A_i's is also 19 and so that M, the maximum of the "errors" \lvert A_i-a_i \rvert, is as small as possible. For this minimum M, what is 100M?

Leading zeroes must be inputted, so if your answer is 34, then input 034


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