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k a April Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
jlacosta   0
Apr 2, 2025
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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
Hard number theory
td12345   7
N 10 minutes ago by td12345
Let $q$ be a prime number. Define the set
\[
M_q = \left\{ x \in \mathbb{Z}^* \,\middle|\, \sqrt{x^2 + 2q^{2025} x} \in \mathbb{Q} \right\}. 
\]
Find the number of elements of \(M_2  \cup M_{2027}\).
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td12345
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Pythagorean triples vs sine ratio?
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N an hour ago by anticodon
I'm a bit confused about the

right angle 3 4 5 have a sine ratio of 0.6 and cosine of 0.8,

Do different lengths of right-angle triangles have different ratios?

how to get an actual angle of sine ?

thanks

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Let $A$ and $B$ be points on a plane such that $AB=1.$ Let $P$ be a point on that plane such that $$\frac{AP^2+BP^2}{(AP)(BP)}=3.$$Prove that $$AP \in \left[\frac{5-\sqrt{5}}{10}, \frac{-1+\sqrt{5}}{2}\right] \cup \left[\frac{5+\sqrt{5}}{10}, \frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2}\right].$$
Source: Own
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N 2 hours ago by Alex-131
Prove that $x_n = \frac{1}{\sqrt{3} + 1} + \frac{1}{ \sqrt{7} + \sqrt{5}} + \cdots ( \text{ up to n terms })$ is bounded.

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Source: Mathematics Magazine Volume 97 (2024), Issue 4: https://doi.org/10.1080/0025570X.2024.2393998
2201. Proposed by Leonard Giugiuc, Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania. Find all real numbers $K$ such that
$$a^2 + b^2 + c^2 - 3 \geq K(a + b + c - 3)$$for all nonnegative real numbers $a$, $b$, and $c$ with $abc \leq 1$.
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Let $a,b,c$ be three non-negative real numbers satisfying $a+b+c+abc=4.$
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[*]Each coloured cell has exactly three friends.
[*]All three friends of any given coloured cell lie in the same row or in the same column.
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Determine the maximum number of cells that can be coloured on the board.
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Igor   43
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Let $ABC$ be an acute-angled triangle with $AB<AC$ and let $O$ be the centre of its circumcircle $\omega$. Let $D$ be a point on the line segment $BC$ such that $\angle BAD = \angle CAO$. Let $E$ be the second point of intersection of $\omega$ and the line $AD$. If $M$, $N$ and $P$ are the midpoints of the line segments $BE$, $OD$ and $AC$, respectively, show that the points $M$, $N$ and $P$ are collinear.
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Sequence of numbers in form of a^2+b^2
TheOverlord   13
N 3 hours ago by bin_sherlo
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Let $ b_1<b_2<b_3<\dots $ be the sequence of all natural numbers which are sum of squares of two natural numbers.
Prove that there exists infinite natural numbers like $m$ which $b_{m+1}-b_m=2015$ .
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TheOverlord
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bin_sherlo
3 hours ago
BT = 2PT wanted, 40-70-70 triangle (2010 Romania District VII P3)
parmenides51   2
N May 24, 2020 by sunken rock
Consider triangle $ABC$ with $AB = AC$ and $\angle A = 40 ^o$. The points $S$ and $T$ are on the sides $AB$ and $BC$, respectively, so that $\angle BAT = \angle BCS= 10 ^o$. The lines $AT$ and $CS$ intersect at point $P$. Prove that $BT = 2PT$.
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parmenides51
May 19, 2020
sunken rock
May 24, 2020
BT = 2PT wanted, 40-70-70 triangle (2010 Romania District VII P3)
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Consider triangle $ABC$ with $AB = AC$ and $\angle A = 40 ^o$. The points $S$ and $T$ are on the sides $AB$ and $BC$, respectively, so that $\angle BAT = \angle BCS= 10 ^o$. The lines $AT$ and $CS$ intersect at point $P$. Prove that $BT = 2PT$.
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$\triangle CPT \sim \triangle APS$, equal angles, so $\frac{AP}{CP}=\frac{PS}{PT}$.
But then $\triangle PST \sim \triangle ACP$.

$\angle PAC=\angle PST =30^{\circ}$.
$\angle BSC=100^{\circ},\angle BST=70^{\circ}$ and $\triangle BST$ isoscles: $BT=ST$.

$\triangle PST\ :\ \sin 30^{\circ}=\frac{PT}{ST}$, hence $2 \cdot PT=ST=BT$.
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$ASTC$ is cyclic, thus $\angle BTS=40^\circ\ (\ 1\ ), ST=BT\ (\ 2\ ), AT\bot CS, \angle ATS=60^\circ\implies ST=2PT$; with $(2)$ we are done.

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