There is a rectangular sheet of paper on an infinite blackboard. Marvin secretly chooses a convex $2024$-gon $P$ that lies fully on the piece of paper. Tigerin wants to find the vertices of $P$. In each step, Tigerin can draw a line $g$ on the blackboard that is fully outside the piece of paper, then Marvin replies with the line $h$ parallel to $g$ that is the closest to $g$ which passes through at least one vertex of $P$. Prove that there exists a positive integer $n$, independent of the choice of the polygon, such that Tigerin can always determine the vertices of $P$ in at most $n$ steps.
Problem
Source: MEMO 2024 I2
Tags: combinatorics, combinatorial geometry, polygon, question, guessing game