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jlacosta   0
Apr 2, 2025
Spring is in full swing and summer is right around the corner, what are your plans? At AoPS Online our schedule has new classes starting now through July, so be sure to keep your skills sharp and be prepared for the Fall school year! Check out the schedule of upcoming classes below.

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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:
Suggestion Form

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
N May 4, 2019 by LauraZed
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.

Before submitting a bug report, please confirm the issue exists in other browsers or other computers if you have access to them.

For a list of many common questions and issues, please see our user created FAQ, Community FAQ, or For the Win! FAQ.

What is a bug?
A bug is a misbehavior that is reproducible. If a refresh makes it go away 100% of the time, then it isn't a bug, but rather a glitch. That's when your browser has some strange file cached, or for some reason doesn't render the page like it should. Please don't report glitches, since we generally cannot fix them. A glitch that happens more than a few times, though, could be an intermittent bug.

If something is wrong in the wiki, you can change it! The AoPS Wiki is user-editable, and it may be defaced from time to time. You can revert these changes yourself, but if you notice a particular user defacing the wiki, please let an admin know.

The subject
The subject line should explain as clearly as possible what went wrong.

Bad: Forum doesn't work
Good: Switching between threads quickly shows blank page.

The report
Use this format to report bugs. Be as specific as possible. If you don't know the answer exactly, give us as much information as you know. Attaching a screenshot is helpful if you can take one.

Summary of the problem:
Page URL:
Steps to reproduce:
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Expected behavior:
Frequency:
Operating system(s):
Browser(s), including version:
Additional information:

If your computer or tablet is school issued, please indicate this under Additional information.

Example
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.

How to take a screenshot
Mac OS X: If you type ⌘+Shift+4, you'll get a "crosshairs" that lets you take a custom screenshot size. Just click and drag to select the area you want to take a picture of. If you type ⌘+Shift+4+space, you can take a screenshot of a specific window. All screenshots will show up on your desktop.

Windows: Hit the Windows logo key+PrtScn, and a screenshot of your entire screen. Alternatively, you can hit Alt+PrtScn to take a screenshot of the currently selected window. All screenshots are saved to the Pictures → Screenshots folder.

Advanced
If you're a bit more comfortable with how browsers work, you can also show us what happens in the JavaScript console.

In Chrome, type CTRL+Shift+J (Windows, Linux) or ⌘+Option+J (Mac).
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In Internet Explorer, it's the F12 key.
In Safari, first enable the Develop menu: Preferences → Advanced, click "Show Develop menu in menu bar." Then either go to Develop → Show Error console or type Option+⌘+C.

It'll look something like this:
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dcouchman   0
Jan 18, 2018
If you find content on the AoPS Community that makes you concerned for a user's health or safety, please alert AoPS Administrators using the report button (Z) or by emailing sheriff@aops.com . You should provide a description of the content and a link in your message. If it's an emergency, call 911 or whatever the local emergency services are in your country.

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Source: own
find all pairs of $(m,n)$ such that $n^2-79=m^3$
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MM 2201 (Symmetric Inequality with Weird Sharp Case)
kgator   1
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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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Interesting Inequality Problem
Omerking   0
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Let $a,b,c$ be three non-negative real numbers satisfying $a+b+c+abc=4.$
Prove that
$$\frac{a}{a^{2}+1}+\frac{b}{b^{2}+1}+\frac{c}{c^{2}+1} \leq\frac{6}{13-3ab-3bc-3ca}$$
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[SEIF Q1] FE on x^3+xy...( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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Source: SEIF 2022
Find all functions $f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ such that any real numbers $x$ and $y$ satisfy
$$x^3+f(x)f(y)=f(f(x^3)+f(xy)).$$Proposed by EmilXM
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Mar 12, 2022
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Acumlus   2
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Since thiers a new CEO now for AOPS and its 2025, will we see AOPS integrate artificial intelligence into its programs in but not limited to alcumus, not like totally changing it, for example maybe their could be an insights area where its composed about the problems you most frequently missed and other features, tysm for reading this.
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Acumlus
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jlacosta
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Search results do not show up
Craftybutterfly   16
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Summary: If you use advanced search, the search says "No topics here!"
Steps to reproduce:
1. Use advanced search
2. there will be no topics when you finish
Frequency: 100%
Operating system(s): HP elitebook
Browser: Chrome latest version
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Craftybutterfly
Apr 4, 2025
Craftybutterfly
Today at 5:03 AM
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ChaitraliKA   16
N Yesterday at 8:08 PM by jlacosta
Summary of the problem: searching literally anything doesn't give any results
Page URL: https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/search-private
Steps to reproduce:
1. Search literally anything!!! Any key words that you know are obviously present in your PMs. It does not give any search results.
Expected behavior: it should give search results similar to searching in forums
Frequency: every time
Browser(s), including version: chrome
Additional information: I tried on multiple devices
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ChaitraliKA
Apr 2, 2025
jlacosta
Yesterday at 8:08 PM
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k "Formatting Tips" in wrong place?
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N Yesterday at 8:04 PM by jlacosta
Summary of the problem:
The formatting tips button on class homework problems has moved.
Page URL:
any class homework page
Steps to reproduce:
1. Got to class homework page.
2. find a problem with formatting tips
3. see that the button is now above input space.
Expected behavior:
the button is to the right of submit button
Frequency:
100%
Operating system(s):
windows 11
Browser(s), including version:
Firefox, idk?
Additional information:
in screenshots
Mods/admins, this probably isn't a very big problem, so feel free to lock if you want. :yup:
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SlyOwl45
Apr 5, 2025
jlacosta
Yesterday at 8:04 PM
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Craftybutterfly   15
N Yesterday at 5:53 PM by jlacosta
Summary of the problem: If you change your avatar, it takes a long time to show the avatar
Page URL:
Steps to reproduce:
1. Change your avatar
2. Wait
3. It takes a long time for it to change
Expected behavior: It changes quickly
Frequency: 100%
Operating system(s): HP elitebook
Browser(s), including version: chrome latest
Additional information: It shows the attachment below for at least 30 seconds before it changes and reloads the page
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Craftybutterfly
Apr 7, 2025
jlacosta
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is it just me but is the aops wiki lag back

its taking forever for me to load the aime probs
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greenplanet2050
Apr 7, 2025
jlacosta
Yesterday at 5:35 PM
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PikaPika999   2
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In $\LaTeX$$,$ what is the difference between \boxed and \fbox?
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PikaPika999
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derekli   2
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Hey guys I work for stellar learning and i was wondering will it be ok to scrape the entire AOPS wiki for problems/solutions? Also btw why has wiki been slow lately?
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PiPioneer17   1
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I have been using AOPS wiki, and whenever I click on a problem it takes around 20 seconds to load. Does anyone else have this issue?
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PiPioneer17
Yesterday at 4:08 AM
Sotowa
Yesterday at 4:12 AM
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AIMETestTaker   8
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Hi, does anyone know what the formula for the composite FTW scoring is?

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Mobius thingy
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Source: FKMO 2025
For all natural numbers $n$, sequence $a_{n}$ satisfies the equation:
$\sum_{k=1}^{n}\frac{1}{2}(1-(-1)^{[\frac{n}{k}]})a_{k}=1$
When $m=1001\times 2^{2025}$, find the value of $a_{m}$.
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For all natural numbers $n$, sequence $a_{n}$ satisfies the equation:
$\sum_{k=1}^{n}\frac{1}{2}(1-(-1)^{[\frac{n}{k}]})a_{k}=1$
When $m=1001\times 2^{2025}$, find the value of $a_{m}$.
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