A Sort of Celebration Post
by mathnerd_101, Apr 11, 2025, 2:38 AM
So we've hit 10k, huh?
5 years ago, I set it as my dream to get to 10k views. I never thought I would get there. Who would want to look at some random teenager's blog? Who cares? This was the era where there were SO many AoPS users who were far smarter and better at writing than I was: mathicorn, v4913, bibear, sub_math, wolfpack, brianzjk, the list goes on. I did everything I could to get more views. Cringy little me even shamelessly advertised my blog on mathicorn's blog a few times
But here we are at my "goal." After meeting so many more new people, I guess I've built up a nonzero audience, which is pretty cool.
Now for a little history about my blog:
1. Where did your name come from?
Originally, every single post about this blog was about math. But as I realized 20000 other people were making posts on harder math problems with cooler solutions, I realized I wanted to deviate from this. Hence, "No Longer A Math Blog." I don't think I've deviated from the name since, as all of my posts have been on event recaps rather than math problems (Stay tuned for a little plot twist!)
2. Where did you get "Awaiting 2000 AoPS Upvotes" from?
Back in 8th grade, both simonicorn (who is unfortunately far past her AoPS days) and v4913 (who is also unfortunately past her AoPS days) both bet 2000 AoPS upvotes that I would make AIME. I didn't make AIME, and thus I am still awaiting the 1000 upvotes each that they owe me
Why did I keep this? Well, I was too lazy to change it but it also reminds me of my cringy, corny, oh-so "Don't ever show me the messages I sent then because I will otherwise want to rip my eyes out" days. And maybe that nostalgia is ok.
3. Where next?
I have no idea. Wherever this blog takes me, I guess. I know far too many people who have left AoPS and their blogs because they are "too old for AoPS." I currently don't believe that anybody is too old to make blog posts, but maybe my perspective will change when I enter college. We'll see. As for now, I have one goal: To provide high-qualitythough albeit long recaps of fun events that I have gone to.
And finally, the moment you all have waiting for: I'm breaking the rules that I had originally set for this blog: no math problems. Wake Tech Regionals was today, so I do want to go through a full solution set to all the problems I know how to solve. If you don't want to view it, great! It's in a hide tag for a reason. If you do want to view the problems, great! I invite you to click on the hide tag. Furthermore, I will do my best to give hints on how I approached the problem to aid you guys if you don't understand how to do the problem.
And that's it. That's virtually all the problems minus one. This took like 2 hours to type up, so please do comment up watch it, and let me know if I made any mistakes. Shoutout to ChaitraliKA for both sharing me the problems and meeting up with me irl for the first time
Also shoutout to speedyfalcon for showing me how easy P5 actually was, and akliu for his work on helping me find solutions when I was being dumb.Also shoutout to theofficialpro orz on discord for helping your boy confirm his P10 solution.
5 years ago, I set it as my dream to get to 10k views. I never thought I would get there. Who would want to look at some random teenager's blog? Who cares? This was the era where there were SO many AoPS users who were far smarter and better at writing than I was: mathicorn, v4913, bibear, sub_math, wolfpack, brianzjk, the list goes on. I did everything I could to get more views. Cringy little me even shamelessly advertised my blog on mathicorn's blog a few times
But here we are at my "goal." After meeting so many more new people, I guess I've built up a nonzero audience, which is pretty cool.
Now for a little history about my blog:
1. Where did your name come from?
Originally, every single post about this blog was about math. But as I realized 20000 other people were making posts on harder math problems with cooler solutions, I realized I wanted to deviate from this. Hence, "No Longer A Math Blog." I don't think I've deviated from the name since, as all of my posts have been on event recaps rather than math problems (Stay tuned for a little plot twist!)
2. Where did you get "Awaiting 2000 AoPS Upvotes" from?
Back in 8th grade, both simonicorn (who is unfortunately far past her AoPS days) and v4913 (who is also unfortunately past her AoPS days) both bet 2000 AoPS upvotes that I would make AIME. I didn't make AIME, and thus I am still awaiting the 1000 upvotes each that they owe me
Why did I keep this? Well, I was too lazy to change it but it also reminds me of my cringy, corny, oh-so "Don't ever show me the messages I sent then because I will otherwise want to rip my eyes out" days. And maybe that nostalgia is ok.
3. Where next?
I have no idea. Wherever this blog takes me, I guess. I know far too many people who have left AoPS and their blogs because they are "too old for AoPS." I currently don't believe that anybody is too old to make blog posts, but maybe my perspective will change when I enter college. We'll see. As for now, I have one goal: To provide high-quality
And finally, the moment you all have waiting for: I'm breaking the rules that I had originally set for this blog: no math problems. Wake Tech Regionals was today, so I do want to go through a full solution set to all the problems I know how to solve. If you don't want to view it, great! It's in a hide tag for a reason. If you do want to view the problems, great! I invite you to click on the hide tag. Furthermore, I will do my best to give hints on how I approached the problem to aid you guys if you don't understand how to do the problem.
Doing this, we get that 
Now, we can solve this by factoring. By using RRT, we get that 
is a factor. Upon division, we get 
is the factored form. Now, we know that our only positive solutions are 
so our values of 
are 
Summing these gives our answer of 
to 
in or something like that idk my friend explained it pretty wonkily idk if he even solved it right but anyhow we press on. Transformations suck.
be positive integers such that 
and 
Determine the value of 
Furthermore, note that 
Thus, the answer is just 
is on point 
such that 
and 
and 
is a point on 
such that 
and 
Given that 
calculate 
so 
Cross multiplying and solving this quadratic, we get that our solution is 
Thus, 
given that 
We know from 
that 
so substituting this gives us 
Now, plugging this in to 
and 
gives us 
Solving these equations gives us 
Thus, by Vieta's, the sum of the roots is 
thus by median properties (the 2:1 ratio split thingy), we know that 
(For reference, I missed this part in-contest) Now, we can calculate 
by the Pythagorean Theorem to be 
and thus 
Now, by Pythagorean theorem, we know that the altitude from 
is 
so our area is just 
Thus, simplifying and substituting 
we get that 
Simple guess and check gives us 
as our solutions. My dumb self forgot the former solution. Thus, 
giving us 
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we get that 
Now if we try finding 
we will realize that 
this 
pattern continues until we once again reach 
thus 
Now return to the problem statement; 
but each inner function will just become 
hence the answer is 
be real numbers such that 
Find 
Thus, simplifying, we get that 
or that 
Plugging this in to the first equation, we get that 
so this means that 
Now, 
thus 
are on circle 
such that 
and 
Determine the path length from 
formed by segment 
and arc 
is the diameter, thus we can draw 
and so by Special Right Triangles we do NOT in fact get 
but rather 
is also an integer.
.
to be an integer. Plugging in factors of 
we see that there are 
integers that work.
such that 
is a multiple of 
Plugging in numbers gives us 
as our smallest value.
are real numbers such that 
and 
Calculate 
Furthermore, 
so 
meaning that 
.
and thus 
giving us 
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How many sequences 
are possible such that 
is the only point with equal coordinates?
Furthermore, we know that 
so our answer is just 
in the summation. Essentially, we have 
.
In other words, we want to find 
.
.
in such a polynomial is 
.
,
.
.
,
.
and 
,
and divide by 
.
and 
in our sum, subtract by 
.
term look kind of weird? Well, we actually notice 
,
.
,
,
is our answer! (Again, thank you akliu for both the problem statement and solution)
,
terms. Drawing it out on the unit circle (which I heavily advise), it cycles between 
and 
.
,
,
.
,
for when 
terms! Anyways, the answer is 
.
so our coefficient is just 
Find 
Thus, our answer is just 
on the positive integers using the rule that for 
For all prime 
and for all other 
Find the smallest possible value of 
can be written as the sum of two distinct, non-negative integer powers of 
.
etc.
we get that it is 
Thus, we note that for an integer 
Since 
we know that all values of 
satisfy our conditions. Thus, our answer is just 
be the set of positive integers of 
for some other positive integer 
Find the only three-digit value of 
is our solution. For these Pell Equations, all solutions are of the form 
for 
Thus, we plug in 
giving us 
as our answer.
Find the value of 
and let 
be our three-digit number that we remove. Thus, we can write 
By our condition, we know that 
or that 
Furthermore, we know that 
does not work, so we try 
We know that 
by the fact that it must be divisible by a 
Noting that 
doesn't work, we try 
or that 
This, miraculously, works, and thus our value of 
And that's it. That's virtually all the problems minus one. This took like 2 hours to type up, so please do comment up watch it, and let me know if I made any mistakes. Shoutout to ChaitraliKA for both sharing me the problems and meeting up with me irl for the first time
Also shoutout to speedyfalcon for showing me how easy P5 actually was, and akliu for his work on helping me find solutions when I was being dumb.Also shoutout to theofficialpro orz on discord for helping your boy confirm his P10 solution.
This post has been edited 9 times. Last edited by mathnerd_101, Apr 12, 2025, 2:34 AM
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