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May 1, 2025
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k i Zero tolerance
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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.
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To make it short: ALWAYS USE YOUR COMMON SENSE IF POSTING!
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For new threads:
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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.
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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.
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c) Good problem statement:
Some recent really bad post was:
[quote]
[/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.
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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.
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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.
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]

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




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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Old problem
kwin 1
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22 minutes ago
by ant_
Let
and
. Prove that:
Is there any generalizations?



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IMO Genre Predictions
ohiorizzler1434 35
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31 minutes ago
by ohiorizzler1434
Everybody, with IMO upcoming, what are you predictions for the problem genres?
Personally I predict: predict
Personally I predict: predict
ANG GCA
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Inequality
giangtruong13 0
32 minutes ago
Source: My friend
Let
such that
. Find the minimum:



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something interesting...
SunnyEvan 0
an hour ago
Source: old result
Let
,
,
be non-negative real numbers, no two of which are zero. Such that
Prove that :





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Jbmo 2011 Problem 4
Eukleidis 13
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2 hours ago
by Adventure1000
Source: Jbmo 2011
Let
be a convex quadrilateral and points
and
on sides
such that
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If
is the area of
show that




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If



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we can find one pair of a boy and a girl
orl 16
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2 hours ago
by ezpotd
Source: Vietnam TST 2001 for the 42th IMO, problem 3
Some club has 42 members. It’s known that among 31 arbitrary club members, we can find one pair of a boy and a girl that they know each other. Show that from club members we can choose 12 pairs of knowing each other boys and girls.
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teleporting wizard starts on point (2017, 101), 4 moves
parmenides51 1
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2 hours ago
by jasperE3
Source: 2018 USAIMEO #2 p5 (Mock AIME -USAJMO) https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c594864h1572209p9658908
A teleporting wizard starts on the point
and can teleport to other Cartesian coordinates with only
of
moves:
,
when
,
, and
when
.
(a) Let
be any polynomial with positive integer coefficients that passes through
. Show that for all such
, there exists a unique point on the curve where the wizard can land on.
(b) For each
, let
be this unique point. Find the equation of the graph that contains all potential
.









(a) Let



(b) For each



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IMO ShortList 2001, combinatorics problem 1
orl 33
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2 hours ago
by ihategeo_1969
Source: IMO ShortList 2001, combinatorics problem 1
Let
be a sequence of positive integers. Let
be the number of 3-element subsequences
with
, such that
and
. Considering all such sequences
, find the greatest value of
.








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CooL geo
Pomegranat 0
3 hours ago
Source: Idk
In triangle














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Coefficient Problem
P162008 2
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3 hours ago
by cazanova19921
Consider the polynomial 
Find the coefficient of
in the expansion of

Find the coefficient of


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Shooting An Invisible Tank
Aryan27 0
3 hours ago
Source: 239 MO
An invisible tank is on a
table. A cannon can fire at any
cells of the board after that the tank will move to one of the adjacent cells (by side). Then the process is repeated. Find the smallest value of
such that the cannon can definitely shoot the tank after some time.



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Showing Tangency
Itoz 1
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3 hours ago
by ja.
Source: Own
The circumcenter of
is
. Line
meets line
at point
, and there is a point
on
such that
. Line
intersects
at point
. The perpendicular bisector of line segment
intersects line
at point
, and line
intersects
at point
.
Prove that
is tangent to
.

















Prove that


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ND_ wrote:
When is equality achieved? a=b=c doesn't satisfy the initial condition. I think minimum is 10.
with equality occurring when

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I used Cauchy and got
so i think 10 is the min, and I dont think 9 is achievable.

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I can help you to solve this. Check pm for Vietnamese solution.
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Y by Maximilian113, PikaPika999
k this is SUPER hard
why is inequality not satisfied by a=b=c?
suggests something funny like calculus
edit: ok im back with a fake solve!!!!!!!
Solve:
Expand
to get
into which we now substitute
.
this now gives us
which taking the double derivative gives that this function is convex.
so we can apply Karamata (smoothing kind of) to give us that equality case is where two of
are equal and consequently two of
equal.
note that scaling doesn't change anything in the inequality so you homogenize by setting idk
and then going back into the condition
we should get
must be the minimum and consequently the minimum value is achieved at 10????????????
why is inequality not satisfied by a=b=c?
suggests something funny like calculus
edit: ok im back with a fake solve!!!!!!!
Solve:
Expand



this now gives us

so we can apply Karamata (smoothing kind of) to give us that equality case is where two of


note that scaling doesn't change anything in the inequality so you homogenize by setting idk


we should get

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Reason: fake proof issues die hard
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InftyByond wrote:
k this is SUPER hard
why is inequality not satisfied by a=b=c?
suggests something funny like calculus
edit: ok im back with a fake solve!!!!!!!
Solve:
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to get
into which we now substitute
.
this now gives us
which taking the double derivative gives that this function is convex.
so we can apply Karamata (smoothing kind of) to give us that equality case is where two of
are equal and consequently two of
equal.
note that scaling doesn't change anything in the inequality so you homogenize by setting idk
and then going back into the condition
we should get
must be the minimum and consequently the minimum value is achieved at 10????????????
why is inequality not satisfied by a=b=c?
suggests something funny like calculus
edit: ok im back with a fake solve!!!!!!!
Solve:
Expand



this now gives us

so we can apply Karamata (smoothing kind of) to give us that equality case is where two of


note that scaling doesn't change anything in the inequality so you homogenize by setting idk


we should get

The problem has been solved


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Cobedangiu wrote:
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Cobedangiu wrote:
InftyByond wrote:
k this is SUPER hard
why is inequality not satisfied by a=b=c?
suggests something funny like calculus
edit: ok im back with a fake solve!!!!!!!
Solve:
Expand
to get
into which we now substitute
.
this now gives us
which taking the double derivative gives that this function is convex.
so we can apply Karamata (smoothing kind of) to give us that equality case is where two of
are equal and consequently two of
equal.
note that scaling doesn't change anything in the inequality so you homogenize by setting idk
and then going back into the condition
we should get
must be the minimum and consequently the minimum value is achieved at 10????????????
why is inequality not satisfied by a=b=c?
suggests something funny like calculus
edit: ok im back with a fake solve!!!!!!!
Solve:
Expand



this now gives us

so we can apply Karamata (smoothing kind of) to give us that equality case is where two of


note that scaling doesn't change anything in the inequality so you homogenize by setting idk


we should get

The problem has been solved


K so i looked at the solve
Its pretty nice and slick with no calculus
Is my alternate solve wrong then? not surprised
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See this https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c6h1834400p23632179 for more information
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