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Arr0w   23
N Sep 19, 2022 by scannose
Greetings.

I have seen many posts talking about commonly asked questions, such as finding the value of $0^0$, $\frac{1}{0}$,$\frac{0}{0}$, $\frac{\infty}{\infty}$, why $0.999...=1$ or even expressions of those terms combined as if that would make them defined. I have made this post to answer these questions once and for all, and I politely ask everyone to link this post to threads that are talking about this issue.
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[*]Firstly, the case of $0^0$. It is usually regarded that $0^0=1$, not because this works numerically but because it is convenient to define it this way. You will see the convenience of defining other undefined things later on in this post.

[*]What about $\frac{\infty}{\infty}$? The issue here is that $\infty$ isn't even rigorously defined in this expression. What exactly do we mean by $\infty$? Unless the example in question is put in context in a formal manner, then we say that $\frac{\infty}{\infty}$ is meaningless.

[*]What about $\frac{1}{0}$? Suppose that $x=\frac{1}{0}$. Then we would have $x\cdot 0=0=1$, absurd. A more rigorous treatment of the idea is that $\lim_{x\to0}\frac{1}{x}$ does not exist in the first place, although you will see why in a calculus course. So the point is that $\frac{1}{0}$ is undefined.

[*]What about if $0.99999...=1$? An article from brilliant has a good explanation. Alternatively, you can just use a geometric series. Notice that
\begin{align*} \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{9}{10^n}&=9\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{10^n}=9\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\biggr(\frac{1}{10}\biggr)^n=9\biggr(\frac{\frac{1}{10}}{1-\frac{1}{10}}\biggr)=9\biggr(\frac{\frac{1}{10}}{\frac{9}{10}}\biggr)=9\biggr(\frac{1}{9}\biggr)=\boxed{1} \end{align*}
[*]What about $\frac{0}{0}$? Usually this is considered to be an indeterminate form, but I would also wager that this is also undefined.
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Hopefully all of these issues and their corollaries are finally put to rest. Cheers.

2nd EDIT (6/14/22): Since I originally posted this, it has since blown up so I will try to add additional information per the request of users in the thread below.

INDETERMINATE VS UNDEFINED

What makes something indeterminate? As you can see above, there are many things that are indeterminate. While definitions might vary slightly, it is the consensus that the following definition holds: A mathematical expression is be said to be indeterminate if it is not definitively or precisely determined. So how does this make, say, something like $0/0$ indeterminate? In analysis (the theory behind calculus and beyond), limits involving an algebraic combination of functions in an independent variable may often be evaluated by replacing these functions by their limits. However, if the expression obtained after this substitution does not provide sufficient information to determine the original limit, then the expression is called an indeterminate form. For example, we could say that $0/0$ is an indeterminate form.

But we need to more specific, this is still ambiguous. An indeterminate form is a mathematical expression involving at most two of $0$, $1$ or $\infty$, obtained by applying the algebraic limit theorem (a theorem in analysis, look this up for details) in the process of attempting to determine a limit, which fails to restrict that limit to one specific value or infinity, and thus does not determine the limit being calculated. This is why it is called indeterminate. Some examples of indeterminate forms are
\[0/0, \infty/\infty, \infty-\infty, \infty \times 0\]etc etc. So what makes something undefined? In the broader scope, something being undefined refers to an expression which is not assigned an interpretation or a value. A function is said to be undefined for points outside its domain. For example, the function $f:\mathbb{R}^{+}\cup\{0\}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ given by the mapping $x\mapsto \sqrt{x}$ is undefined for $x<0$. On the other hand, $1/0$ is undefined because dividing by $0$ is not defined in arithmetic by definition. In other words, something is undefined when it is not defined in some mathematical context.

WHEN THE WATERS GET MUDDIED

So with this notion of indeterminate and undefined, things get convoluted. First of all, just because something is indeterminate does not mean it is not undefined. For example $0/0$ is considered both indeterminate and undefined (but in the context of a limit then it is considered in indeterminate form). Additionally, this notion of something being undefined also means that we can define it in some way. To rephrase, this means that technically, we can make something that is undefined to something that is defined as long as we define it. I'll show you what I mean.

One example of making something undefined into something defined is the extended real number line, which we define as
\[\overline{\mathbb{R}}=\mathbb{R}\cup \{-\infty,+\infty\}.\]So instead of treating infinity as an idea, we define infinity (positively and negatively, mind you) as actual numbers in the reals. The advantage of doing this is for two reasons. The first is because we can turn this thing into a totally ordered set. Specifically, we can let $-\infty\le a\le \infty$ for each $a\in\overline{\mathbb{R}}$ which means that via this order topology each subset has an infimum and supremum and $\overline{\mathbb{R}}$ is therefore compact. While this is nice from an analytic standpoint, extending the reals in this way can allow for interesting arithmetic! In $\overline{\mathbb{R}}$ it is perfectly OK to say that,
\begin{align*} a + \infty = \infty + a & = \infty, & a & \neq -\infty \\ a - \infty = -\infty + a & = -\infty, & a & \neq \infty \\ a \cdot (\pm\infty) = \pm\infty \cdot a & = \pm\infty, & a & \in (0, +\infty] \\ a \cdot (\pm\infty) = \pm\infty \cdot a & = \mp\infty, & a & \in [-\infty, 0) \\ \frac{a}{\pm\infty} & = 0, & a & \in \mathbb{R} \\ \frac{\pm\infty}{a} & = \pm\infty, & a & \in (0, +\infty) \\ \frac{\pm\infty}{a} & = \mp\infty, & a & \in (-\infty, 0). \end{align*}So addition, multiplication, and division are all defined nicely. However, notice that we have some indeterminate forms here which are also undefined,
\[\infty-\infty,\frac{\pm\infty}{\pm\infty},\frac{\pm\infty}{0},0\cdot \pm\infty.\]So while we define certain things, we also left others undefined/indeterminate in the process! However, in the context of measure theory it is common to define $\infty \times 0=0$ as greenturtle3141 noted below. I encourage to reread what he wrote, it's great stuff! As you may notice, though, dividing by $0$ is undefined still! Is there a place where it isn't? Kind of. To do this, we can extend the complex numbers! More formally, we can define this extension as
\[\mathbb{C}^*=\mathbb{C}\cup\{\tilde{\infty}\}\]which we call the Riemann Sphere (it actually forms a sphere, pretty cool right?). As a note, $\tilde{\infty}$ means complex infinity, since we are in the complex plane now. Here's the catch: division by $0$ is allowed here! In fact, we have
\[\frac{z}{0}=\tilde{\infty},\frac{z}{\tilde{\infty}}=0.\]where $\tilde{\infty}/\tilde{\infty}$ and $0/0$ are left undefined. We also have
\begin{align*} z+\tilde{\infty}=\tilde{\infty}, \forall z\ne -\infty\\ z\times \tilde{\infty}=\tilde{\infty}, \forall z\ne 0 \end{align*}Furthermore, we actually have some nice properties with multiplication that we didn't have before. In $\mathbb{C}^*$ it holds that
\[\tilde{\infty}\times \tilde{\infty}=\tilde{\infty}\]but $\tilde{\infty}-\tilde{\infty}$ and $0\times \tilde{\infty}$ are left as undefined (unless there is an explicit need to change that somehow). One could define the projectively extended reals as we did with $\mathbb{C}^*$, by defining them as
\[{\widehat {\mathbb {R} }}=\mathbb {R} \cup \{\infty \}.\]They behave in a similar way to the Riemann Sphere, with division by $0$ also being allowed with the same indeterminate forms (in addition to some other ones).
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Due to excessive spam and inappropriate posts, we have locked the Prealgebra and Beginning Algebra threads.

We will either unlock these threads once we've cleaned them up or start new ones, but for now, do not start new marathon threads for these subjects. Any new marathon threads started while this announcement is up will be immediately deleted.
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f (Reminder: Do not post Alcumus or class homework questions on this forum. Instructions below.) f
Welcome to the Middle School Math Forum! Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the rules.

Overview:
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Hey, I was just wondering if anybody here takes the MathCon Competition or not. And if so, what's the best way to get the highest score possible?
Thank you! and pls respond
update: it did NOT go well i got 220:sob:
i was not locked in and was going hella slow
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Hey guys
im in new jersey a third grader who got 12 on amc 8. I want to make mop in high school and mathcounts nationals in 6th grade is that realistic how should I get better
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A twist on a classic
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Rank from smallest to largest: $\sqrt[2]{2}$, $\sqrt[3]{3}$, and $\sqrt[5]{5}$.

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I got Click to reveal hidden text and I just guessed and checked through most of it, also idek if I can post this (lol) but if i can, please help me!
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My question is how much of the geo and IA textbooks is relevant to AMC 10?
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Multiple states have announced their top students who will advance to the 2025 MATHCOUNTS National Competition in May:

• From Alabama: Henry Gladden of Mobile, Austin Lu of Birmingham, Jessie Shi of Vestavia, and Minlu Wang-He of Auburn.

• From Arkansas: Ryan Fan of Fayetteville, Vivek Kalyankar of Fayetteville, Evan Ning of Fayetteville and Charles Yao of Conway.

• From Connecticut: Hayden Hughes of Newtown, Ethan Shi of Riverside, Alex Svoronos of Greenwich and Elaine Zhou of Hamden.

• From the Department of Defense: Narmin Guliyeva of Ankara, Turkey; Taeyul Kim of Manana, Bahrain; Nathan Liang of Wiesbaden, Germany; and Lucas Sze of Okinawa, Japan.

• From Hawaii: Taehwan Jeon, Hilohak Kwak, Isaac Qian and Thien Tran, all from Honolulu.

• From Kansas: Haidan Anderson & Jayden Xue of Overland Park, Christopher Spencer of Manhattan, and Ruby Jiang of Lawrence.

• From Maine: Ana Kanitkar & Connor Kirkham of Falmouth, Anna McClary of Hermon and Poppy Sandin of Bar Harbor.

• From Massachusetts: Eric Huang of Acton, Shlok Mukund & Brandon Ni of Lexington, and Soham Samanta of Medford.

• From Missouri: Lucas Lai of Columbia, Kevin Shi of St. Louis, Charles Yong & Jay Zhou of Chesterfield.

• From Montana: Titus Gilder of Missoula, Otis Heggem of Billings, Kaleb Houtz of Great Falls and Evan Newcomer of Missoula.

• From Nevada: Solomon Dumont of Las Vegas, Aaron Lei of Reno, Leeoz Nebat of Henderson and Maxwell Tsai of Las Vegas.

• From New Mexico: Mark Goldman, Daniel He, Iris Huang and Patrick McArdle, all from Albuquerque.

• From New York: Derrick Chen of Great Neck, Victor Yang of Great Neck, Hanru Zhang of Jericho and Ryan Zhang of Jericho.

• From Rhode Island: Kahlan Anderson of the Wheeler School, Julian Bernhoft & Colin Hegstrom of Providence, and Theodora Watson of Barrington.

• From South Carolina: Yukai Hu of Elgin, Justin Peng of Clemson, Geonhoo Shim of Columbia, and Aaron Wang of Mount Pleasant.

• From South Dakota: Seth Chaplin & Maxwell Wang of Sioux Falls, Laukia Gundewar of Aberdeen, and Cohwen Heimann of Aberdeen.

• From Texas: Shaheem Samsudeen & Ayush Narayan of Plano, Nathan Liu of Richardson, and James Stewart of Southlake.

• From Vermont: Mohid Ali of South Burlington, Vivek Chadive of South Burlington, Joshua Kratze of St. Johnsbury and Albert Zhang of South Burlington.

• From Wisconsin: August Reeder & Lucy Chen of Fitchburg, Junhao Feng of Milwaukee, and Jiyan Singh of River Hills.

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Updated on 3/15/2025:

• From Colorado: Noah Liu, Christopher Zhu, Neo Luo, and Andrew Zhao.

• From Florida: Arnav Bhatia, Gnaneswar Peddesugari, Edwin Gao, and Rananjay Parmar.

• From Indiana: Roland Li, Hrishabh Bhowmik, Sophia Chen, and Arjun Raman.

• From Kentucky: Sri Shubhaan Vulava, Joyce Liu, Victor Gong, and Brandon Tedja.

• From Maryland: Eric Xie, Angie Zhu, Roger Huang, and Leo Su.

• From Michigan: Arnav Vunnam, Eric Jin, Akshaj Malraj, and Chaithanya Budida.

• From Minnesota: Ahmed Ilyasov, Will Masanz, Anshdeep Singh, and Branden Qiao.

• From New Jersey: Ethan Imanuel, Advait Joshi, Jay Wang, and Easton Wei.

• From North Carolina: Shivank Chintalpati, Steven Wang, Lucas Li, and Leo Hong.

• From Ohio: Henry Lu, Andy Mo, Archishmen Dey, and Caleb Tan.

• From Oregon: Sophia Han, Kevin Cheng, Garud Shah, and Ryan Zhang.
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probability pentagon contains center
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Here's a cute problem:

Consider a regular pentagon. Choose 3 points along the perimeter of the pentagon, and form a triangle with those 3 points. What is the probability that this triangle contains the center of the pentagon.
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ohio mathcounts state
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what is the cutoff for cdr for ohio? Is ohio a competitve state?
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What was your Mathcounts Chant?
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Hi, I wanted to ask everyone, before the written competition, each state had to do their chant. What chant did you and your team make xd!

Im in WV and I think we did the least cringe chant, and it goes like this:

(After one person says something, the other person following waits ~2 seconds, and then says their line)
P1: Hi
P2: Hi
P3: Hi
P4: Bye

Lol if you were at the national competition you prob remember.
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Whenever possible, I will be posting problems twice a week! They will be roughly of AMC 8 difficulty. Have fun solving! Also, these problems are all written by myself!

First problem:

$20^{16}$ has how many digits?
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maxamc   1
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if 1+1 is 2 then what is the square root of 4 with 100 significant figures?
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Leeoz   6
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So, there is a very important decision.. and I have decided to asked all of the people on AoPS :P

I am going to MathCounts nats, but there is the MathCon a day before the competition. It there anything I will miss by just going to MathCounts right on the day of the contest, or is it worth it to go to MathCon, even if I will have to leave before the awards.

Just want your ideas and opinions for this :)
also pls say if there is something that I will miss in MathCounts before the actual contest
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Hello!

I'm going to prepare for Mathcounts state soon. I want some advice on what to do. I am in 7th grade, and I want to make it to nationals. I know I should obviously take practice tests, but should I do something else other than that, or just grind all (or most) practice tests from previous years? Also, how much should I focus on Countdown round relative to the other tests?

(For reference, I got 43 on school, and 41 on chapter. Last year, I got 16/116 rank in state. Since then, I have done the following courses from aops:
Intro: algebra b, number theory, c&p, geometry
Intermediate: algebra, number theory, c&p)
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jkim0656   100
N Yesterday at 5:19 AM by jkim0656
Hey Aops!
Pi = Circumfrence/Diameter
Tau = Circumfrence/Radius
I have noticed a lot of sites, including Khan Academy, in support of tau over pi...
so what do you think?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/let-s-use-tau-it-s-easier-than-pi/
However i am still in support of the good ol pi :)
(btw this is my first aops poll) :-D

EDIT: 50 votes!!! :play_ball:
EDIT: 100 votes!!! :jump:
EDIT: 150 votes! :trampoline:
EDIT: 200 votes! ;)
Edit: 250 votes !!!! yaya :gathering:

If u support pi pls upvote :)
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#1 h  Mar 15, 2025, 4:20 PM
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the glaze is unreal
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#4 h  Mar 15, 2025, 4:29 PM
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MAA rly messed up on 25
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#6 h  Mar 15, 2025, 4:30 PM
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iwastedmyusername wrote:
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yeah right, 25 is totally harder than 24
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#7 h  Mar 15, 2025, 4:30 PM
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Soupboy0 wrote:
the glaze is unreal

wdym

also @2bove :rotfl:

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#8 h  Mar 15, 2025, 4:33 PM
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I got a 22/25 but somehow my friend got a 25/25 and he is in 4th grade :huh:
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#9 h  Mar 15, 2025, 4:39 PM
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sultanine wrote:
Soupboy0 wrote:
the glaze is unreal

wdym

also @2bove :rotfl:

edit: sniped
bro is glazing maa
wait the post got edited
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#10 h  Mar 15, 2025, 5:28 PM
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#12 h  Mar 15, 2025, 5:32 PM
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I have p23 as p7 on my test and i genuinely thought it was p7
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#13 h  Mar 15, 2025, 5:33 PM
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i just sillied question 23 so its the hardest now


i could have gotten a perfect score :wallbash_red:
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#14 h  Mar 15, 2025, 5:34 PM
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Yrock wrote:
iwastedmyusername wrote:
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yeah right, 25 is totally harder than 24

24 isnt that difficult if you know your 30-60-90 triangles
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#15 h  Mar 15, 2025, 5:34 PM
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at least you didntt silly p24 and p7 :wallbash_red:
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#16 h  Mar 15, 2025, 5:37 PM
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iwastedmyusername wrote:
Yrock wrote:
iwastedmyusername wrote:
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yeah right, 25 is totally harder than 24

24 isnt that difficult if you know your 30-60-90 triangles

i couldn't figure it out because I am dumb :wallbash:
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#17 h  Mar 15, 2025, 5:48 PM
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I'm going to fall for the bait and act like Timmy
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#18 h  Mar 15, 2025, 6:02 PM
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I had p22 and p23 as my first 2 problems on my test. It was my first time taking the test online, and I didn't know they were in a random order so I sold.
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#19 h  Mar 15, 2025, 6:14 PM
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probably like:
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imo 24 should have been last, and 25 was pretty free for where it was placed
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like ik a lot of aime quals who couldnt solve 22 and 24 in contest so um...
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