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k a April Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
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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
How many ways can we indistribute n different marbles into 6 identical boxes
Taiharward   0
9 minutes ago
How many ways can we distribute n indifferent marbles into 6 identical boxes and one jar?
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Taiharward
9 minutes ago
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Tiling rectangle with smaller rectangles.
MarkBcc168   60
N an hour ago by cursed_tangent1434
Source: IMO Shortlist 2017 C1
A rectangle $\mathcal{R}$ with odd integer side lengths is divided into small rectangles with integer side lengths. Prove that there is at least one among the small rectangles whose distances from the four sides of $\mathcal{R}$ are either all odd or all even.

Proposed by Jeck Lim, Singapore
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MarkBcc168
Jul 10, 2018
cursed_tangent1434
an hour ago
ALGEBRA INEQUALITY
Tony_stark0094   2
N an hour ago by Sedro
$a,b,c > 0$ Prove that $$\frac{a^2+bc}{b+c} + \frac{b^2+ac}{a+c} + \frac {c^2 + ab}{a+b} \geq a+b+c$$
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Tony_stark0094
2 hours ago
Sedro
an hour ago
Checking a summand property for integers sufficiently large.
DinDean   2
N 2 hours ago by DinDean
For any fixed integer $m\geqslant 2$, prove that there exists a positive integer $f(m)$, such that for any integer $n\geqslant f(m)$, $n$ can be expressed by a sum of positive integers $a_i$'s as
\[n=a_1+a_2+\dots+a_m,\]where $a_1\mid a_2$, $a_2\mid a_3$, $\dots$, $a_{m-1}\mid a_m$ and $1\leqslant a_1<a_2<\dots<a_m$.
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DinDean
Yesterday at 5:21 PM
DinDean
2 hours ago
Bunnies hopping around in circles
popcorn1   22
N 2 hours ago by awesomeming327.
Source: USA December TST for IMO 2023, Problem 1 and USA TST for EGMO 2023, Problem 1
There are $2022$ equally spaced points on a circular track $\gamma$ of circumference $2022$. The points are labeled $A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_{2022}$ in some order, each label used once. Initially, Bunbun the Bunny begins at $A_1$. She hops along $\gamma$ from $A_1$ to $A_2$, then from $A_2$ to $A_3$, until she reaches $A_{2022}$, after which she hops back to $A_1$. When hopping from $P$ to $Q$, she always hops along the shorter of the two arcs $\widehat{PQ}$ of $\gamma$; if $\overline{PQ}$ is a diameter of $\gamma$, she moves along either semicircle.

Determine the maximal possible sum of the lengths of the $2022$ arcs which Bunbun traveled, over all possible labellings of the $2022$ points.

Kevin Cong
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popcorn1
Dec 12, 2022
awesomeming327.
2 hours ago
Iran second round 2025-q1
mohsen   4
N 2 hours ago by MathLuis
Find all positive integers n>2 such that sum of n and any of its prime divisors is a perfect square.
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mohsen
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MathLuis
2 hours ago
Dear Sqing: So Many Inequalities...
hashtagmath   37
N 2 hours ago by hashtagmath
I have noticed thousands upon thousands of inequalities that you have posted to HSO and was wondering where you get the inspiration, imagination, and even the validation that such inequalities are true? Also, what do you find particularly appealing and important about specifically inequalities rather than other branches of mathematics? Thank you :)
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hashtagmath
Oct 30, 2024
hashtagmath
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integer functional equation
ABCDE   148
N 3 hours ago by Jakjjdm
Source: 2015 IMO Shortlist A2
Determine all functions $f:\mathbb{Z}\rightarrow\mathbb{Z}$ with the property that \[f(x-f(y))=f(f(x))-f(y)-1\]holds for all $x,y\in\mathbb{Z}$.
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ABCDE
Jul 7, 2016
Jakjjdm
3 hours ago
IMO Shortlist 2013, Number Theory #1
lyukhson   152
N 3 hours ago by Jakjjdm
Source: IMO Shortlist 2013, Number Theory #1
Let $\mathbb{Z} _{>0}$ be the set of positive integers. Find all functions $f: \mathbb{Z} _{>0}\rightarrow \mathbb{Z} _{>0}$ such that
\[ m^2 + f(n) \mid mf(m) +n \]
for all positive integers $m$ and $n$.
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lyukhson
Jul 10, 2014
Jakjjdm
3 hours ago
9x9 Board
mathlover314   8
N 3 hours ago by sweetbird108
There is a $9x9$ board with a number written in each cell. Every two neighbour rows sum up to at least $20$, and every two neighbour columns sum up to at most $16$. Find the sum of all numbers on the board.
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mathlover314
May 6, 2023
sweetbird108
3 hours ago
Inequalities
sqing   7
N 3 hours ago by anduran
Let $ a,b,c> 0 $ and $ ab+bc+ca\leq  3abc . $ Prove that
$$ a+ b^2+c\leq a^2+ b^3+c^2 $$$$ a+ b^{11}+c\leq a^2+ b^{12}+c^2 $$
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sqing
Yesterday at 1:54 PM
anduran
3 hours ago
Estonian Math Competitions 2005/2006
STARS   3
N 3 hours ago by Darghy
Source: Juniors Problem 4
A $ 9 \times 9$ square is divided into unit squares. Is it possible to fill each unit square with a number $ 1, 2,..., 9$ in such a way that, whenever one places the tile so that it fully covers nine unit squares, the tile will cover nine different numbers?
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STARS
Jul 30, 2008
Darghy
3 hours ago
Geometry Angle Chasing
Sid-darth-vater   2
N 4 hours ago by Sid-darth-vater
Is there a way to do this without drawing obscure auxiliary lines? (the auxiliary lines might not be obscure I might just be calling them obscure)

For example I tried rotating triangle MBC 80 degrees around point C (so the BC line segment would now lie on segment AC) but I couldn't get any results. Any help would be appreciated!
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Sid-darth-vater
Monday at 11:50 PM
Sid-darth-vater
4 hours ago
Absolute value
Silverfalcon   8
N Yesterday at 7:46 PM by zhoujef000
This problem seemed to be too obvious.. And I think I"m wrong.. :D

Problem:

Consider the sequence $x_0, x_1, x_2,...x_{2000}$ of integers satisfying

\[x_0 = 0, |x_n| = |x_{n-1} + 1|\]

for $n = 1,2,...2000$.

Find the minimum value of the expression $|x_1 + x_2 + ... x_{2000}|$.

My idea

Pretty sure I'm wrong but where did I go wrong?
8 replies
Silverfalcon
Jun 27, 2005
zhoujef000
Yesterday at 7:46 PM
line AO passes through the midpoint of segment EF
toanrathay   1
N Mar 30, 2025 by joeym2011
Given a triangle \( ABC \) with \( AB < AC \) and the angle bisector \( AD \).
The line passing through \( A \) and perpendicular to \( AC \) intersects the line passing through \( B \) and parallel to \( AD \) at point \( E \).
The line passing through \( A \) and perpendicular to \( AB \) intersects the line passing through \( C \) and parallel to \( AD \) at point \( F \).
Let \( O \) be the intersection of the three perpendicular bisectors of triangle \( ABC \).
Prove that line \( AO \) passes through the midpoint of segment \( EF \).
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toanrathay
Mar 30, 2025
joeym2011
Mar 30, 2025
line AO passes through the midpoint of segment EF
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Given a triangle \( ABC \) with \( AB < AC \) and the angle bisector \( AD \).
The line passing through \( A \) and perpendicular to \( AC \) intersects the line passing through \( B \) and parallel to \( AD \) at point \( E \).
The line passing through \( A \) and perpendicular to \( AB \) intersects the line passing through \( C \) and parallel to \( AD \) at point \( F \).
Let \( O \) be the intersection of the three perpendicular bisectors of triangle \( ABC \).
Prove that line \( AO \) passes through the midpoint of segment \( EF \).
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We have $\triangle ABE\sim\triangle ACF$ because $\angle ABE=\frac12\angle BAC=\angle ACF$ and $\angle BAE=90^{\circ}-\angle BAC=\angle CAF$. Afterwards, using the complex plane with origin $O$, let $e-a=k(b-a)$ and $f-a=\overline k(c-a)$. We have $kb+\overline kc=0$ since $\angle BAC+2\angle BAE=180^{\circ}$, yielding $\frac{e+f}2=a-ak-a\overline k$. This is a multiple $a$, so $\frac{e+f}2$ lies on line $AO$.
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