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,
and 
intersect at 
.
be the circumcircle of the triangle 
;
and 
,
and 
intersects 
.
on 
.
and 
meet at 
,
.
.
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be a positive integer. A Japanese triangle consists of 
circles arranged in an equilateral triangular shape such that for each 
,
,
,
row contains exactly 
circles, exactly one of which is coloured red. A ninja path in a Japanese triangle is a sequence of 
,
such that in each Japanese triangle there is a ninja path containing at least 
,
and 
.
is prime, 
with 
and 
be a function such that for every regular 
-
we have 
.
for all reals 
.
)
are the altitudes of the triangle. The bisector of 
intersects 
at 
.
and 
.
passes through the midpoint of 
.
with 
and at most one of them being zero, show that![\[\frac{1}{\max(a^2,b)}+\frac{1}{\max(b^2,c)}+\frac{1}{\max(c^2,a)}\geq\frac{27}{4}\]](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/9/e/1/9e14a9ef2d1a0a98006bcf716fa33c3d9ea29bd5.png)
be an integer. Find all sequences 
satisfying the following conditions:![\[ \text{ (a) } a_i \in \left\{0,1\right\} \text{ for all } 1 \leq i \leq n^2 + n;
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![\[ \text{ (b) } a_{i + 1} + a_{i + 2} + \ldots + a_{i + n} < a_{i + n + 1} + a_{i + n + 2} + \ldots + a_{i + 2n} \text{ for all } 0 \leq i \leq n^2 - n.
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Y by Adventure10, Mango247
Let 
be an acute triangle such that 
is the shortest side of the triangle. Let 
be the midpoint of the side and 
be an interior point of the triangle such that 
. Denote by M and 
the feet of the perpendiculars from to 
and 
, respectively. Let 
be the line through 
parallel to and 
be the line through parallel to . If and intersect at 
prove that is the circumcenter of triangle 
.
be an acute triangle such that 
is the shortest side of the triangle. Let 
be the midpoint of the side and 
be an interior point of the triangle such that 
. Denote by M and 
the feet of the perpendiculars from to 
and 
, respectively. Let 
be the line through 
parallel to and 
be the line through parallel to . If and intersect at 
prove that is the circumcenter of triangle 
.
