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k a May Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
jlacosta   0
May 1, 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
Prove Positions
Mathelets   1
N 8 minutes ago by tapilyoca
Anyone please help me to solve this problem.
Problem:
Prove that for any positive integer $n>10$, if any permutation of the first $n$ natural numbers are taken, there will be at least $3$ positions $i$ such that $\gcd(p[i],p[i+1])=1$.(Here, $p[i]$ denotes the number at the $i^{th}$ position in the permutation).
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Mathelets
2 hours ago
tapilyoca
8 minutes ago
[15th PMO] National Orals, Part 1, #9
LilKirb   5
N an hour ago by BinariouslyRandom
If $x^2+2x+5$ is a factor of $x^4 +ax^2 + b$, find the sum of $a+b.$
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LilKirb
Yesterday at 4:04 PM
BinariouslyRandom
an hour ago
Inequalities
sqing   6
N an hour ago by sqing
Let $ a,b> 0 ,a+b+a^2+b^2+ab=5.$ Prove that
$$ (a^2+b^2)(a+1)(b+1) \leq 9$$
6 replies
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sqing
3 hours ago
sqing
an hour ago
Repeating decimal problem
elpianista227   1
N an hour ago by elpianista227
Let $S$ be the set of all rational numbers $r$ such that $0 < r < 1$ and $r$, when written as a decimal, is in the form $0.\overline{abc}$, where $a, b, c$ are (not necessarilly) distinct digits. Find the sum of all elements in $S$.

Addendum: When $a, b, c$ are all the same, this is not counted in the set $S$.
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elpianista227
an hour ago
elpianista227
an hour ago
2-var inequality
sqing   10
N an hour ago by sqing
Source: Own
Let $ a,b> 0 ,a^3+ab+b^3=3.$ Prove that
$$ (a+b)(a+1)(b+1) \leq 8$$$$ (a^2+b^2)(a+1)(b+1) \leq 8$$Let $ a,b> 0 ,a^3+ab(a+b)+b^3=3.$ Prove that
$$ (a+b)(a+1)(b+1) \leq \frac{3}{2}+\sqrt[3]{6}+\sqrt[3]{36}$$
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sqing
Yesterday at 1:35 PM
sqing
an hour ago
Inspired by Czech-Polish-Slovak 2024
sqing   1
N 2 hours ago by sqing
Source: Own
Let $ a,b,c\geq 0, (a+1)(b+ c )=2025.$ Prove that$$ a+b^2+c\geq \frac{355}{4}$$Let $ a,b,c\geq 0, (a-1)(b+ c )=2025.$ Prove that$$ a+b^2+c\geq \frac{364}{4}$$Let $ a,b,c\geq 0, (a+ 1)(b- c )=2025.$ Prove that$$ a+b^2+c\geq \frac{135 \sqrt[3]{90}-2}{2}$$
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sqing
2 hours ago
sqing
2 hours ago
FE i created on bijective function with x≠y
benjaminchew13   8
N 2 hours ago by benjaminchew13
Source: own (probably)
Find all bijective functions $f:\mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}$ such that $$(x-y)f(x+f(f(y)))=xf(x)+f(y)^{2}$$for all $x,y\in \mathbb{R}$ such that $x\neq y$.
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benjaminchew13
3 hours ago
benjaminchew13
2 hours ago
Sum of divisors
Kimchiks926   3
N 2 hours ago by math-olympiad-clown
Source: Baltic Way 2022, Problem 17
Let $n$ be a positive integer such that the sum of its positive divisors is at least $2022n$. Prove that $n$ has at least $2022$ distinct prime factors.
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Kimchiks926
Nov 12, 2022
math-olympiad-clown
2 hours ago
Find the number of interesting numbers
WakeUp   13
N 2 hours ago by mathematical-forest
Source: China TST 2011 - Quiz 1 - D1 - P3
A positive integer $n$ is known as an interesting number if $n$ satisfies
\[{\  \{\frac{n}{10^k}} \} > \frac{n}{10^{10}} \]
for all $k=1,2,\ldots 9$.
Find the number of interesting numbers.
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WakeUp
May 19, 2011
mathematical-forest
2 hours ago
A complex FE from Iran
mojyla222   7
N 2 hours ago by mathematical-forest
Source: Iran 2024 3rd round algebra exam P2
A surjective function $g: \mathbb{C} \to \mathbb C$ is given. Find all functions $f: \mathbb{C} \to \mathbb C$ such that for all $x,y\in \mathbb C$ we have
$$
|f(x)+g(y)| = | f(y) + g(x)|.
$$

Proposed by Mojtaba Zare, Amirabbas Mohammadi
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mojyla222
Aug 29, 2024
mathematical-forest
2 hours ago
interesting geometry config (3/3)
Royal_mhyasd   1
N 2 hours ago by Royal_mhyasd
Let $\triangle ABC$ be an acute triangle, $H$ its orthocenter and $E$ the center of its nine point circle. Let $P$ be a point on the parallel through $C$ to $AB$ such that $\angle CPH = |\angle BAC-\angle ABC|$ and $P$ and $A$ are on different sides of $BC$ and $Q$ a point on the parallel through $B$ to $AC$ such that $\angle BQH = |\angle BAC - \angle ACB|$ and $C$ and $Q$ are on different sides of $AB$. If $B'$ and $C'$ are the reflections of $H$ over $AC$ and $AB$ respectively, $S$ and $T$ are the intersections of $B'Q$ and $C'P$ respectively with the circumcircle of $\triangle ABC$, prove that the intersection of lines $CT$ and $BS$ lies on $HE$.

final problem for this "points on parallels forming strange angles with the orthocenter" config, for now. personally i think its pretty cool :D
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Royal_mhyasd
Today at 7:06 AM
Royal_mhyasd
2 hours ago
interesting geo config (2/3)
Royal_mhyasd   4
N 2 hours ago by Royal_mhyasd
Source: own
Let $\triangle ABC$ be an acute triangle and $H$ its orthocenter. Let $P$ be a point on the parallel through $A$ to $BC$ such that $\angle APH = |\angle ABC-\angle ACB|$. Define $Q$ and $R$ as points on the parallels through $B$ to $AC$ and through $C$ to $AB$ similarly. If $P,Q,R$ are positioned around the sides of $\triangle ABC$ as in the given configuration, prove that $P,Q,R$ are collinear.
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Royal_mhyasd
Yesterday at 11:36 PM
Royal_mhyasd
2 hours ago
Polyline with increasing links
NO_SQUARES   1
N 2 hours ago by Noirshade
Source: 239 MO 2025 10-11 p1
There are $100$ points on the plane, all pairwise distances between which are different. Is there always a polyline with vertices at these points, passing through each point once, in which the link lengths increase monotonously?
1 reply
NO_SQUARES
May 5, 2025
Noirshade
2 hours ago
Find the perfect squares
Johann Peter Dirichlet   5
N 2 hours ago by ririgggg
Source: Problem 1, Brazil MO 1993
The sequence $(a_n)_{n \in\mathbb{N}}$ is defined by $a_1 = 8, a_2 = 18, a_{n+2} = a_{n+1}a_{n}$. Find all terms which are perfect squares.
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Johann Peter Dirichlet
Mar 18, 2006
ririgggg
2 hours ago
volume of pyramid wanted (2010 Euler Teachers' MO I p9)
parmenides51   2
N Jul 20, 2020 by duck_master
The side edges $PA, PB, PC$ of the pyramid $PABC$ are equal to $2, 2$, and $3$, respectively the base of the ABC is a regular triangle. It is known that the area of the lateral faces of the pyramid are equal to each other. Find the volume of the pyramid $PABC$ .
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parmenides51
Jul 10, 2020
duck_master
Jul 20, 2020
volume of pyramid wanted (2010 Euler Teachers' MO I p9)
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The side edges $PA, PB, PC$ of the pyramid $PABC$ are equal to $2, 2$, and $3$, respectively the base of the ABC is a regular triangle. It is known that the area of the lateral faces of the pyramid are equal to each other. Find the volume of the pyramid $PABC$ .
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The Russian answer says: this pyramid does not exist.
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Elaborating on the previous poster's answer
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