Consider a variant of the Bertrand's competition given in class. Assume that each firm is restricted to choose a price that is an integral number of cents. Take the monetary unit to be cent and assume that c is an integer and a > c+1. Is (c, c) a Nash equilibrium? Is there any other Nash equilibrium? Plz do fast

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