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k a May Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
jlacosta   0
May 1, 2025
May is an exciting month! National MATHCOUNTS is the second week of May in Washington D.C. and our Founder, Richard Rusczyk will be presenting a seminar, Preparing Strong Math Students for College and Careers, on May 11th.

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[*]May 21st, 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Mathcamp 2025 Qualifying Quiz Part 2 Math Jam, Problems 5 and 6, Canada/USA Mathcamp staff will discuss solutions to Problems 5 and 6 of the 2025 Mathcamp Qualifying Quiz![/list]
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k i Adding contests to the Contest Collections
dcouchman   1
N Apr 5, 2023 by v_Enhance
Want to help AoPS remain a valuable Olympiad resource? Help us add contests to AoPS's Contest Collections.

Find instructions and a list of contests to add here: https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c40244h1064480_contests_to_add
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dcouchman
Sep 9, 2019
v_Enhance
Apr 5, 2023
k i Zero tolerance
ZetaX   49
N May 4, 2019 by NoDealsHere
Source: Use your common sense! (enough is enough)
Some users don't want to learn, some other simply ignore advises.
But please follow the following guideline:


To make it short: ALWAYS USE YOUR COMMON SENSE IF POSTING!
If you don't have common sense, don't post.


More specifically:

For new threads:


a) Good, meaningful title:
The title has to say what the problem is about in best way possible.
If that title occured already, it's definitely bad. And contest names aren't good either.
That's in fact a requirement for being able to search old problems.

Examples:
Bad titles:
- "Hard"/"Medium"/"Easy" (if you find it so cool how hard/easy it is, tell it in the post and use a title that tells us the problem)
- "Number Theory" (hey guy, guess why this forum's named that way¿ and is it the only such problem on earth¿)
- "Fibonacci" (there are millions of Fibonacci problems out there, all posted and named the same...)
- "Chinese TST 2003" (does this say anything about the problem¿)
Good titles:
- "On divisors of a³+2b³+4c³-6abc"
- "Number of solutions to x²+y²=6z²"
- "Fibonacci numbers are never squares"


b) Use search function:
Before posting a "new" problem spend at least two, better five, minutes to look if this problem was posted before. If it was, don't repost it. If you have anything important to say on topic, post it in one of the older threads.
If the thread is locked cause of this, use search function.

Update (by Amir Hossein). The best way to search for two keywords in AoPS is to input
[code]+"first keyword" +"second keyword"[/code]
so that any post containing both strings "first word" and "second form".


c) Good problem statement:
Some recent really bad post was:
[quote]$lim_{n\to 1}^{+\infty}\frac{1}{n}-lnn$[/quote]
It contains no question and no answer.
If you do this, too, you are on the best way to get your thread deleted. Write everything clearly, define where your variables come from (and define the "natural" numbers if used). Additionally read your post at least twice before submitting. After you sent it, read it again and use the Edit-Button if necessary to correct errors.


For answers to already existing threads:


d) Of any interest and with content:
Don't post things that are more trivial than completely obvious. For example, if the question is to solve $x^{3}+y^{3}=z^{3}$, do not answer with "$x=y=z=0$ is a solution" only. Either you post any kind of proof or at least something unexpected (like "$x=1337, y=481, z=42$ is the smallest solution). Someone that does not see that $x=y=z=0$ is a solution of the above without your post is completely wrong here, this is an IMO-level forum.
Similar, posting "I have solved this problem" but not posting anything else is not welcome; it even looks that you just want to show off what a genius you are.

e) Well written and checked answers:
Like c) for new threads, check your solutions at least twice for mistakes. And after sending, read it again and use the Edit-Button if necessary to correct errors.



To repeat it: ALWAYS USE YOUR COMMON SENSE IF POSTING!


Everything definitely out of range of common sense will be locked or deleted (exept for new users having less than about 42 posts, they are newbies and need/get some time to learn).

The above rules will be applied from next monday (5. march of 2007).
Feel free to discuss on this here.
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ZetaX
Feb 27, 2007
NoDealsHere
May 4, 2019
(3rd) 100th post!
K1mchi_   29
N a few seconds ago by Craftybutterfly
oml why am i doing this again

hey guys its my 3rd 100th post this time im just going to post some math this time and pray it doesn’t get taken down

CHALLENGE!
use 3 100s to make as many numbers as possible
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K1mchi_
Today at 3:06 PM
Craftybutterfly
a few seconds ago
2025 mc nats sprint p28
Soupboy0   6
N 6 minutes ago by Soupboy0
The sets $A$ and $B$ are independently and uniformly randomly chosen subsets of $\{1, 2, 3, 4, ..., 100\}$. Let $P$ be the conditional probability that the intersection of $A$ and $B$ has exactly three elements, given that the union of $A$ and $B$ is the set $\{1, 2, 3, 4, ..., 100\}$. When $P$ is written in lowest terms as $\frac{m}{n}$, how many positive integer factors does $m$ have?

how to solve
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Soupboy0
3 hours ago
Soupboy0
6 minutes ago
Funny Moments
Dream9   72
N 29 minutes ago by Charizard_637
What's the goofiest thing you've seen happen at a math competition? :starwars:
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Dream9
May 11, 2025
Charizard_637
29 minutes ago
2025 Mathcounts Nationals Journal
Andyluo   14
N an hour ago by steve4916
Friday May 9th

I spent my evening after school, packing for the trip, using the checklist given by my coach.
I didn’t do much preparation, as I was mostly chilling out for the upcoming days.

I also played basketball with my cousin, Kevin, who met Gotham Chess and stayed at his home!


Saturday, May 10th

I woke up at 5:30 AM, ate a light breakfast, and headed out to the airport with my luggage.

I met my teacher, but was surprised that Archishman split up with his own family.
Waiting for the TSA was pretty boring, but we soon got through, and after I found our gate.

A couple of minutes pass by, as I review an AOPS mock where I meet Archischman;
Afterward, we chill out, watch the rube goldberg machine in the airport, and wait to board the plane.

During the plane ride, I played games; however, during our descent, I heard a loud crack, and our plane started wobbling, and we heard cracking sounds in the seats. Fortunately, we were able to land and were able to attend the competition the next day.

After this, heading out, we went to the shuttle; however, we had 35 minutes. We tried to solve the Jane Street card puzzle but failed, and ended up socializing.

After we arrived at the hotel, we received a MASSIVE amount of stuff, like calculators, shirts, coupons, plaques, stickers, etc.
I also saw and got a signature from Richard Rusczyk, which was really cool.

Then, we went to a restaurant named “Chinatown Garden”, with the worst food I’ve ever had.

We then chilled in our rooms, studied for a bit, and started organizing plans for pin trading.

Our goal was to scam as many people as possible by doing 2:1 trades, as we had a “limited”
amount of pins. (We even got 5:1 and 10:1 trades)
A Virginia kid scammed me with a STEM pin, so I chased him down and got our pin back.

We got through around half the states organizing in and out of what pins we had.

Finally, we got some food from the buffet (which was surprisingly decent) and had a good time trading some more.

We ended the day with a short and brief CDR, where we had some fun, and then we went to sleep to anticipate the next day.

At night, I showered and sang karaoke with Archi.

Sunday, May 11th

Getting ready, I found out that a mock (outside the box) was recently released and took it through breakfast.

Then, once we got there at 8:30, there was a mob of parents taking pictures, and music played.

Then every team did introductions/attendance and their chants, most of which were really cringe.

I took the test; however was too slow on the sprint round and got a predicted 16.

On the target round, I was able to get through and got a 12, despite barely not solving p8 to my frustration.

Team round we did decently, scoring a 14/20, which was one of the best scores around us, that even orz states like Texas and Washington didn’t beat.

Predicted Scores:
Caleb and I got a similar score (around 28), and Henry got around 35, and Archi sold on the target and got a 24.

After this, we teamed up with North Carolina (chill af) and went to a pho shop (54 Restaurant), which tasted amazing. (A far contrast from Chinatown Garden)

Then, we went to an aerospace museum, where we played Brawl Stars and went around. Eventually, we saw models of blackholes and air vacuums, and played a flight simulator.

Then we went to our hotel, chilled, and watched basketball games.

After, we went to an Indian restaurant named “Himilayan Doko” which was really delicious!

Then we raided different rooms, from NC, HAWAII, Idaho, Virgin Islands, and accidentally a random dudes room who was ticked at us.

Finally, we chilled and went to sleep, though I tried to get Henry and Archi to sleep since they were being annoying.

Monday, May 12th

We start the day forming my pin badge, and then we went to get some breakfast.

After that, we met in the breakfast area with 2 teams for table, and I actually got a 10:1 pin trade which was pretty cool.

After that, we lined up and got our thunderstick/clapping machines, and ran through the entrance of the CDR.

Sadly, we didn’t win anything, but it was cool seeing the results.

Then, we started to watch the CDR, which was really exciting.
It got really interesting when everyone saw Nathan Liu cook his opponent in half a second.

In the semifinals, it was insane, and Advait and Nathan, buzzed every question that was around mid-sprint level.

Then, it finished with Nathan beating Brandon with a 2-second solve, absolute insanity.

Finally, we went back to our rooms and got lunch in the hotel.
A few hours later, we received our scores, and I had bombed, scoring a 26 with 7 sillies. (ouch)

Unfortunately, my teammates Henry and Archishman sillied a bunch of questions.

After, we played Brawl Stars, and went to explore the hotel, where we went up a random staircase and got stuck. We went to the roof, but got scared and yelled out for help on the gym floor. Thankfully, we got back, and I went and reviewed the test.

After we reviewed the test, and went to the Mathcounts Party.

The food was mid, but the games were pretty fun.

We met a bunch of people, played air hockey, foosball, and basketball, while listening to the not so great music in the background.

Then we went back to our rooms at 8PM, to put our pins on, and I got 38/56!

Finally, we met up in a room with a bunch of Cali, and NC kids, and talked about the test, the people, and played Brawl Stars. Even Josh Frost came up to us and asked us how the trip was.

Tuesday, May 13th

I started the day waking up at 6:20, and packed up and ate breakfast. After that, Henry was late, so we packed food for him and went to the bus shuttle.

Eventually, we arrived at the airport, went through security (which was suspiciously fast), and played Brawl Stars. We also ate five guys fries, which was pretty good. Eventually, we had to part our ways with Henry and headed out to our flights, which marked the end of the trip.

Conclusion:

Although we didn’t do amazingly well in the contest, going to DC was an amazing experience. I got to meet people who were passionate about math, and hang out with them, goofing around.

This was the best math contest experience that I’ll likely ever have, and I’m glad I went through it.
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Andyluo
Yesterday at 4:43 PM
steve4916
an hour ago
Chinese Girls Mathematical Olympiad 2017, Problem 7
Hermitianism   45
N an hour ago by Ilikeminecraft
Source: Chinese Girls Mathematical Olympiad 2017, Problem 7
This is a very classical problem.
Let the $ABCD$ be a cyclic quadrilateral with circumcircle $\omega_1$.Lines $AC$ and $BD$ intersect at point $E$,and lines $AD$,$BC$ intersect at point $F$.Circle $\omega_2$ is tangent to segments $EB,EC$ at points $M,N$ respectively,and intersects with circle $\omega_1$ at points $Q,R$.Lines $BC,AD$ intersect line $MN$ at $S,T$ respectively.Show that $Q,R,S,T$ are concyclic.
45 replies
Hermitianism
Aug 16, 2017
Ilikeminecraft
an hour ago
D1031 : A general result on polynomial 1
Dattier   1
N an hour ago by Dattier
Source: les dattes à Dattier
Let $P(x,y) \in \mathbb Q(x,y)$ with $\forall (a,b) \in \mathbb Z^2, P(a,b) \in \mathbb Z  $.

Is it true that $P(x,y) \in \mathbb Q[x,y]$?
1 reply
Dattier
5 hours ago
Dattier
an hour ago
Asymmetric FE
sman96   18
N an hour ago by jasperE3
Source: BdMO 2025 Higher Secondary P8
Find all functions $f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ such that$$f(xf(y)-y) + f(xy-x) + f(x+y) = 2xy$$for all $x, y \in \mathbb{R}$.
18 replies
sman96
Feb 8, 2025
jasperE3
an hour ago
Easy Geometry
pokmui9909   6
N 2 hours ago by reni_wee
Source: FKMO 2025 P4
Triangle $ABC$ satisfies $\overline{CA} > \overline{AB}$. Let the incenter of triangle $ABC$ be $\omega$, which touches $BC, CA, AB$ at $D, E, F$, respectively. Let $M$ be the midpoint of $BC$. Let the circle centered at $M$ passing through $D$ intersect $DE, DF$ at $P(\neq D), Q(\neq D)$, respecively. Let line $AP$ meet $BC$ at $N$, line $BP$ meet $CA$ at $L$. Prove that the three lines $EQ, FP, NL$ are concurrent.
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pokmui9909
Mar 30, 2025
reni_wee
2 hours ago
Old hard problem
ItzsleepyXD   3
N 2 hours ago by Funcshun840
Source: IDK
Let $ABC$ be a triangle and let $O$ be its circumcenter and $I$ its incenter.
Let $P$ be the radical center of its three mixtilinears and let $Q$ be the isogonal conjugate of $P$.
Let $G$ be the Gergonne point of the triangle $ABC$.
Prove that line $QG$ is parallel with line $OI$ .
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ItzsleepyXD
Apr 25, 2025
Funcshun840
2 hours ago
\frac{2^{n!}-1}{2^n-1} be a square
AlperenINAN   10
N 3 hours ago by Nuran2010
Source: Turkey JBMO TST 2024 P5
Find all positive integer values of $n$ such that the value of the
$$\frac{2^{n!}-1}{2^n-1}$$is a square of an integer.
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AlperenINAN
May 13, 2024
Nuran2010
3 hours ago
Beautiful Angle Sum Property in Hexagon with Incenter
Raufrahim68   0
3 hours ago
Hello everyone! I discovered an interesting geometric property and would like to share it with the community. I'm curious if this is a known result and whether it can be generalized.

Problem Statement:
Let
A
B
C
D
E
K
ABCDEK be a convex hexagon with an incircle centered at
O
O. Prove that:


A
O
B
+

C
O
D
+

E
O
K
=
180

∠AOB+∠COD+∠EOK=180
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Raufrahim68
3 hours ago
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Anything real in this system must be integer
Assassino9931   7
N 3 hours ago by Leman_Nabiyeva
Source: Al-Khwarizmi International Junior Olympiad 2025 P1
Determine the largest integer $c$ for which the following statement holds: there exists at least one triple $(x,y,z)$ of integers such that
\begin{align*} x^2 + 4(y + z) = y^2 + 4(z + x) = z^2 + 4(x + y) = c \end{align*}and all triples $(x,y,z)$ of real numbers, satisfying the equations, are such that $x,y,z$ are integers.

Marek Maruin, Slovakia
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Assassino9931
May 9, 2025
Leman_Nabiyeva
3 hours ago
CIIM 2011 First day problem 3
Ozc   2
N 3 hours ago by pi_quadrat_sechstel
Source: CIIM 2011
Let $f(x)$ be a rational function with complex coefficients whose denominator does not have multiple roots. Let $u_0, u_1,... , u_n$ be the complex roots of $f$ and $w_1, w_2,..., w_m$ be the roots of $f'$. Suppose that $u_0$ is a simple root of $f$. Prove that
\[ \sum_{k=1}^m \frac{1}{w_k - u_0} = 2\sum_{k = 1}^n\frac{1}{u_k - u_0}.\]
2 replies
Ozc
Oct 3, 2014
pi_quadrat_sechstel
3 hours ago
IMO 2009 P2, but in space
Miquel-point   1
N 3 hours ago by Miquel-point
Source: KoMaL A. 485
Let $ABCD$ be a tetrahedron with circumcenter $O$. Suppose that the points $P, Q$ and $R$ are interior points of the edges $AB, AC$ and $AD$, respectively. Let $K, L, M$ and $N$ be the centroids of the triangles $PQD$, $PRC,$ $QRB$ and $PQR$, respectively. Prove that if the plane $PQR$ is tangent to the sphere $KLMN$ then $OP=OQ=OR.$

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Miquel-point
3 hours ago
Miquel-point
3 hours ago
Mock MATHCOUNTS Competition
Th3Numb3rThr33   160
N Mar 11, 2015 by WhaleVomit
I recently (as in in the shower yesterday) had the idea of making a mock MATHCOUNTS competition. Unlike most mock competitions, I was thinking of releasing multiple tests (School, Chapter, State, and possibly National Mock Tests) over the course of the whole mock Mathocunts "season".

The competition will go as follows: I will release each level of the competition every month or so. You will have a 1-2 week window to officially submit your test answers, through PM. For the PM, please refrain yourself to use LaTex! Write fractions in the form A/B, $\pi$ as pi, and square roots in the form sqrtx. Every test will have a raw maximum of 46, and the raw score is calculated by $\text{Sprint Score} + 2\cdot\text{Target Score}$. Taking the raw scores, your official score will be calculated by $2\cdot\text{[School Raw Score]} + 3\cdot\text{[Chapter Raw Score]} + 4\cdot\text{[State Raw Score]} + 5\cdot\text{[National Raw Score]} = \text{Final Score}$. After doing some math, you will find that the maximum score is a score of $690$. If you submit your answers after the window is over, I will only grade it and send it back to you, deeming it useless contributing to your mock season score.

Each test packet contains a traditional 30 questions for sprint, and a traditional 8 questions for the Target Round. Every question in the sprint is designed such that calculators are unnecessary in solving the problem, so calculators are strcitly prhibited for the Sprint Round of the portion, with a time limit of 40 minutes. On the contrary, the Target Round is designed to have the assistance of a non-computer calculator, so follow accordingly. Instructions are thoroughly explained in each test packet. Feel free to print out the packet to solve or keep!

When submitting your answers, submit them to Th3Numb3rThr33 (dur). Do NOT include labels (such as "1337 Leets"), and please number your answers. While breaking the above two recommendations will not result in a penalty, it will make it extremely easy for me to grade the tests (using diffchecker.com).

By the way, this was inspired by the Mock AMC 6, and iNomOnCountdown's Mock MATHCOUNTS test. Check them both out!
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EDIT: The Chapter Competition is up and running! Deadline for submissions is February 28, 2015, at 11:59 PM. Do the test while you can!

ERRATA LIST FOR CHAPTER COMPETITION:

[list]

If you submitted before any of the above was posted, you may redo the problem, and have been PMed about the above issue. BUT, if you submitted more than 5 hours after the errata was posted, you will not be able to redo the problem. If you do not redo the problem, the problem will be counted as an incorrect answer.
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Th3Numb3rThr33
Dec 8, 2014
WhaleVomit
Mar 11, 2015
Mock MATHCOUNTS Competition
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Oops I forgot to do this because I was too busy exploring the new site. :(
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Results!
The rest of you have already been p.m.'ed with your score. If you want a detailed score report, p.m. me.

Solutions are attached. We expect to finish the state round by next week. A new thread will be created because this one is getting a bit crowded. :P
Attachments:
Th3Numb3rThr33sMockMathcountsChapter2015Solutions.pdf (455kb)
Th3Numb3rThr33sMockMCChapterAnswerKey.pdf (104kb)
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Well ok.
Thanks for hosting!
Will you post a link to the new thread here?
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Yes, of course.
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Thanks for the great Chapter test! I found it slightly more difficult than an average State round, but it was very high quality.
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Wow. 6th place. O_O Just watch the State Round be the same level as the Chapter Round.
Thanks still! I'm telling my friends that this is a good practice competition to use! :)
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Benq
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I guarantee that the state round will be harder. :) (Not sure about the national round though)
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droid347
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#154 • 1 Y
Y by Adventure10
wait darn harder than hard is hard
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AKAL3
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#155 • 2 Y
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and you where the one that got a 43...
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mxgo
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#156 • 2 Y
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Got a 38 unofficially. :( I believe this is a lot harder than the actual Chapter test
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AKAL3
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#157 • 1 Y
Y by Adventure10
It was intended to be :)
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football017
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#158 • 1 Y
Y by Adventure10
I got a 33, so 8th...*sigh

Thanks for this awesome competition series though!
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Benq
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#159 • 1 Y
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No problem! I hope to have the state competition out in a couple days (even though many of my answers haven't been checked yet.)
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Benq
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Y by Adventure10, Mango247
Link to the state competition: http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/community/c3h1059651_th3numb3rthr33s_mock_mathcounts_state_competition
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WhaleVomit
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#161 • 2 Y
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State is abnormally hard.. Its like every problem is an AMC 10 #17+
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