SOS article so far
by v_Enhance, Oct 19, 2012, 2:17 AM
What I have so far:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zxpj8g9wxnda19o/SOS_Dumbass.pdf
Aside from the flipped inequalities and typos that are probably evading my sight, I don't quite like the flow of what I've written. There are some ideas I think I got across well (I'll leave it you to guess which one those are so as to avoid confirmation bias), but a lot of it feels like just splintered thoughts thrown together with no unifying idea.
It's also sort of irritating that I feel like I'm writing about a lost art: most three-variable inequalities this day have square roots and stuff. Finding good examples for this article was a challenge that I certainly didn't have when I wrote, say, my bary article. (But that was a much bigger project than this).
Any thoughts/comments/typos would be highly appreciated. In particular, I'm debating whether this is worth posting in the Olympiad Articles forum; at the moment I'm leaning towards no.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zxpj8g9wxnda19o/SOS_Dumbass.pdf
Aside from the flipped inequalities and typos that are probably evading my sight, I don't quite like the flow of what I've written. There are some ideas I think I got across well (I'll leave it you to guess which one those are so as to avoid confirmation bias), but a lot of it feels like just splintered thoughts thrown together with no unifying idea.
It's also sort of irritating that I feel like I'm writing about a lost art: most three-variable inequalities this day have square roots and stuff. Finding good examples for this article was a challenge that I certainly didn't have when I wrote, say, my bary article. (But that was a much bigger project than this).
Any thoughts/comments/typos would be highly appreciated. In particular, I'm debating whether this is worth posting in the Olympiad Articles forum; at the moment I'm leaning towards no.
Closest I got was B2.3 this year; once you homogenize with 
and expand for about twenty minutes you get ![$[9,1,0] \ge [7,3,0]$](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/a/c/b/acb0392ffad86e06ae04193c3444de63c5b5e7b2.png)
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