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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.

Are you interested in working towards MATHCOUNTS and don’t know where to start? We have you covered! If you have taken Prealgebra, then you are ready for MATHCOUNTS/AMC 8 Basics. Already aiming for State or National MATHCOUNTS and harder AMC 8 problems? Then our MATHCOUNTS/AMC 8 Advanced course is for you.

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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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jwelsh   0
May 6, 2021
Hello!

Given the number of suggestions we’ve been receiving, we’re transitioning to a suggestion form. If you have a suggestion for the AoPS website, please submit the Google Form:
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To keep all new suggestions together, any new suggestion threads posted will be deleted.

Please remember that if you find a bug outside of FTW! (after refreshing to make sure it’s not a glitch), make sure you’re following the How to write a bug report instructions and using the proper format to report the bug.

Please check the FTW! thread for bugs and post any new ones in the For the Win! and Other Games Support Forum.
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k i Read me first / How to write a bug report
slester   3
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Greetings, AoPS users!

If you're reading this post, that means you've come across some kind of bug, error, or misbehavior, which nobody likes! To help us developers solve the problem as quickly as possible, we need enough information to understand what happened. Following these guidelines will help us squash those bugs more effectively.

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Summary of the problem: When I click back and forth between two threads in the site support section, the content of the threads no longer show up. (See attached screenshot.)
Page URL: http://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c10_site_support
Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to the Site Support forum.
2. Click on any thread.
3. Click quickly on a different thread.
Expected behavior: To see the second thread.
Frequency: Every time
Operating system: Mac OS X
Browser: Chrome and Firefox
Additional information: Only happens in the Site Support forum. My tablet is school issued, but I have the problem at both school and home.

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Jan 18, 2018
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2026 Mathcounts Competition Conversation Area
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Since the 2025 state hub has been locked, this is the new conversation area for talking about problems, preparation, ect.
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CJB19   79
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I've seen this attempted a lot but I want to see if the AoPS community can actually do it. Using ONLY 4 fours and math operations, make as many numbers as you can. Try to go in order. I'll start:
$$(4-4)*4*4=0$$$$4-4+4/4=1$$$$4/4+4/4=2$$$$(4+4+4)/4=3$$$$4+(4-4)*4=4$$$$4+4^(4-4)=5$$$$4!/4+4-4=6$$$$4+4-4/4=7$$$$4+4+4-4=8$$
I can't get the exponent in 5 to work if someone knows how to fix it please tell me
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THIS IS MY 1000TH POST!!!!!!!!!!!
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best times to work?
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What do you think are the best times to work on math or whatever?
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Sadigly   1
N May 12, 2025 by jlacosta
How to delete some collections? I accidently created 2 same collections, and one of them is useless
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greenplanet2050   7
N May 12, 2025 by jlacosta
I want to reset my Alcumus but it says "You cannot reset your Alcumus data while you are in current AoPS classes."

But I don't have any ongoing AoPs classes and my last class Precalculus already ended.
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Yiyj   8
N May 12, 2025 by Yiyj
Why is there like multiple black thingies as shown in the attachments? When I also clicked on other threads, the black thingies for all of them stayed. So weird…
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File uploads on aops
ohiorizzler1434   3
N May 12, 2025 by Craftybutterfly
What is the length of time a file uploaded to cdn.artofproblemsolving lasts before it is taken down?
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Rice_Farmer   4
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Happy Mother’s Day!
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hi! happy mothers day! hows it goin? happy mothers day!
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RedChameleon   3
N May 8, 2025 by jlacosta
Sbarrack updated the home page of reaper. Now when I want to click on current or upcoming games, when I click the buttons, they do not redirect me to the game.

I have not recorded footage because I'm lazy but I'm currently on a Chromebook and I'm using Chrome.
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tyrantfire4   5
N May 8, 2025 by k1glaucus
I was going to reap on reaper and it put me on a strange reaper page I figured out to to reap by using the url
https://artofproblemsolving.com/reaper/reaper?id=85and changing the 85 but it was so weird I kept the page
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Reaper bug
ChessPanther   3
N May 8, 2025 by Craftybutterfly
In reaper game 96 it says it begins in 3 days but when you look at the upcoming games it says it starts on June 10th? I don't know which it starts on.
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hakuj   2
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Why is Latex not allowed in the text?It is said that new user is not allowed to post an image.How could I post a math problem without Latex?
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MathyMathMan   152
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When is your Mathcounts State Comp? Mine is on the 11th of March.
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#144 h  Apr 23, 2023, 1:47 PM
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Well I’m in the south so it is 85 in early February

Imagine. 80 degrees in February only to get a snow day the next week.
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#145 h  Apr 23, 2023, 2:23 PM
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I’m in AZ
With summers touching 125 :) joy
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#146 h  Apr 23, 2023, 2:29 PM
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I’m in AZ
With summers touching 125 :) joy

that's only Pheonix which is hotter than Tucson by a significant amount
also swimming
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#147 h  Apr 23, 2023, 2:30 PM
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oops i didnt realize all 4 posts above used farenheit

(i use celsius)
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#148 h  Apr 23, 2023, 3:33 PM
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oops i didnt realize all 4 posts above used farenheit

(i use celsius)

Ngl I feel like someone's gonna say something like "I use Kelvins" now lol.
But even in Fahrenheit... Dang that's hot.
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#149 h  Apr 23, 2023, 3:37 PM
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Reason: I was so weird.
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#150 h  Apr 23, 2023, 3:39 PM
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#151 h  Apr 23, 2023, 6:21 PM
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#152 h  Apr 25, 2025, 7:16 PM
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anyone else in pennsilvania?
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#153 h  Apr 25, 2025, 7:22 PM
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anyone else in pennsilvania?

stinky spelling

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#154 h  Apr 25, 2025, 7:27 PM
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March 11, Florida

I know this was from a long time ago, but During that time MA state comp was already finished along with maybe Alabama
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#155 h  Apr 25, 2025, 7:28 PM
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I actually meant to quote this
mathmax12 wrote:
where is the option for not taking it


Sorry Aops_2000
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#156 h  Apr 25, 2025, 7:31 PM
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I actually meant to quote this
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where is the option for not taking it


Sorry Aops_2000

just do edits
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#157 h  Apr 25, 2025, 9:20 PM
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I already had states
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#158 h  Apr 28, 2025, 11:59 AM
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I already had states

Everyone did. Nats is kinda soon.
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