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k a May Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
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May 1, 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
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c^a + a = 2^b
Havu   13
N 13 minutes ago by Royal_mhyasd
Find $a, b, c\in\mathbb{Z}^+$ such that $a,b,c$ coprime, $a + b = 2c$ and $c^a + a = 2^b$.
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Havu
May 10, 2025
Royal_mhyasd
13 minutes ago
Points on a lattice path lies on a line
navi_09220114   4
N 16 minutes ago by atdaotlohbh
Source: TASIMO 2025 Day 1 Problem 3
Let $S$ be a nonempty subset of the points in the Cartesian plane such that for each $x\in S$ exactly one of $x+(0,1)$ or $x+(1,0)$ also belongs to $S$. Prove that for each positive integer $k$ there is a line in the plane (possibly different lines for different $k$) which contains at least $k$ points of $S$.
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navi_09220114
May 19, 2025
atdaotlohbh
16 minutes ago
Recommend number theory books
MoonlightNT   3
N 25 minutes ago by GallopingUnicorn45
I’m preparing AIME and USA(J)MO.
Can you recommend specifically Number theory books?
I already had intro NT of AOSP.
Thank you
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MoonlightNT
3 hours ago
GallopingUnicorn45
25 minutes ago
Functional equation
MuradSafarli   1
N 26 minutes ago by MuradSafarli
Source: Germany 2007
Let \( f : \mathbb{R}^+ \to \mathbb{R}^+ \) be a function such that for all positive rational numbers \( x, y \), the following equation holds:
\[
f\left(\frac{f(x)}{y f(x) + 1}\right) = \frac{x}{x f(y) + 1}.
\]
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MuradSafarli
27 minutes ago
MuradSafarli
26 minutes ago
Directed edge chromatic numbers over a tournament
v_Enhance   33
N 29 minutes ago by yayyayyay
Source: USA January TST for 56th IMO, Problem 2
A tournament is a directed graph for which every (unordered) pair of vertices has a single directed edge from one vertex to the other. Let us define a proper directed-edge-coloring to be an assignment of a color to every (directed) edge, so that for every pair of directed edges $\overrightarrow{uv}$ and $\overrightarrow{vw}$, those two edges are in different colors. Note that it is permissible for $\overrightarrow{uv}$ and $\overrightarrow{uw}$ to be the same color. The directed-edge-chromatic-number of a tournament is defined to be the minimum total number of colors that can be used in order to create a proper directed-edge-coloring. For each $n$, determine the minimum directed-edge-chromatic-number over all tournaments on $n$ vertices.

Proposed by Po-Shen Loh
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v_Enhance
Mar 22, 2015
yayyayyay
29 minutes ago
2-var inequality
sqing   11
N 29 minutes ago by ytChen
Source: Own
Let $ a,b> 0 ,a^3+ab+b^3=3.$ Prove that
$$ (a+b)(a+1)(b+1) \leq 8$$$$ (a^2+b^2)(a+1)(b+1) \leq 8$$Let $ a,b> 0 ,a^3+ab(a+b)+b^3=3.$ Prove that
$$ (a+b)(a+1)(b+1) \leq \frac{3}{2}+\sqrt[3]{6}+\sqrt[3]{36}$$
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sqing
Yesterday at 1:35 PM
ytChen
29 minutes ago
Prove angles are equal
BigSams   52
N 38 minutes ago by zuat.e
Source: Canadian Mathematical Olympiad - 1994 - Problem 5.
Let $ABC$ be an acute triangle. Let $AD$ be the altitude on $BC$, and let $H$ be any interior point on $AD$. Lines $BH,CH$, when extended, intersect $AC,AB$ at $E,F$ respectively. Prove that $\angle EDH=\angle FDH$.
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BigSams
May 13, 2011
zuat.e
38 minutes ago
Angles in a triangle with integer cotangents
Stear14   2
N an hour ago by Stear14
In a triangle $ABC$, the point $M$ is the midpoint of $BC$ and $N$ is a point on the side $BC$ such that $BN:NC=2:1$. The cotangents of the angles $\angle BAM$, $\angle MAN$, and $\angle NAC$ are positive integers $k,m,n$.
(a) Show that the cotangent of the angle $\angle BAC$ is also an integer and equals $m-k-n$.
(b) Show that there are infinitely many possible triples $(k,m,n)$, some of which consisting of Fibonacci numbers.
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Stear14
May 21, 2025
Stear14
an hour ago
Parallelograms and concyclicity
Lukaluce   33
N an hour ago by HamstPan38825
Source: EGMO 2025 P4
Let $ABC$ be an acute triangle with incentre $I$ and $AB \neq AC$. Let lines $BI$ and $CI$ intersect the circumcircle of $ABC$ at $P \neq B$ and $Q \neq C$, respectively. Consider points $R$ and $S$ such that $AQRB$ and $ACSP$ are parallelograms (with $AQ \parallel RB, AB \parallel QR, AC \parallel SP$, and $AP \parallel CS$). Let $T$ be the point of intersection of lines $RB$ and $SC$. Prove that points $R, S, T$, and $I$ are concyclic.
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Lukaluce
Apr 14, 2025
HamstPan38825
an hour ago
IMO Shortlist 2013, Number Theory #4
lyukhson   30
N an hour ago by Martin2001
Source: IMO Shortlist 2013, Number Theory #4
Determine whether there exists an infinite sequence of nonzero digits $a_1 , a_2 , a_3 , \cdots $ and a positive integer $N$ such that for every integer $k > N$, the number $\overline{a_k a_{k-1}\cdots a_1 }$ is a perfect square.
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lyukhson
Jul 10, 2014
Martin2001
an hour ago
Is there a good solution?
sadwinter   2
N an hour ago by ilikemath247365
:maybe: :love: :love:
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sadwinter
Today at 9:47 AM
ilikemath247365
an hour ago
EGMO (geo) Radical Center Question
gulab_jamun   10
N 2 hours ago by gulab_jamun
For this theorem, Evan says that the power of point $P$ with respect to $\omega_1$ is greater than 0 if $P$ lies between $A$ and $B$. (I've underlined it). But, I'm a little confused as I thought the power was $OP^2 - r^2$ and since $P$ is inside the circle, wouldn't the power be negative since $OP < r$?
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gulab_jamun
May 25, 2025
gulab_jamun
2 hours ago
Frustration with Olympiad Geo
gulab_jamun   14
N 2 hours ago by gulab_jamun
Ok, so right now, I am doing the EGMO book by Evan Chen, but when it comes to problems, there are some that just genuinely frustrate me and I don't know how to deal with them. For example, I've spent 1.5 hrs on the second to last question in chapter 2, and used all the hints, and I still am stuck. It just frustrates me incredibly. Any tips on managing this? (or.... am I js crashing out too much?)
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gulab_jamun
May 29, 2025
gulab_jamun
2 hours ago
AIME qual outside US?
daijobu   11
N Today at 2:59 AM by CatCatHead
Can students outside the US take the AIME if they earn a qualifying score?
11 replies
daijobu
Friday at 7:10 PM
CatCatHead
Today at 2:59 AM
Olympiad problems- how to prepare
yugrey   19
N Aug 12, 2010 by MathWise
OK, well, I waste a lot of time, and so I don't think I'm time-efficient enough to do WOOT this year, sadly. However, my last 3 practice AIME scores have been 7,5, and 9, and I feel I can consistently score 7-9 (the 5 was late at night, and was very computational, and had lots of geo, one of which is good for my AIME performance. Luckily I take AIME for real in the morning/afternoon) and I feel I am getting to the point (after a few more practice AIMEs) where I feel I can start transitioning to Olympiad problems. However, I feel this will be hard without WOOT, but I may be able to take Olympiad Geo. Will going through practice tests really work? I plan to go from early USAMO's and CMO's to harder contests and problems, but olympiad problems are hard. Luckily, I have solved one (the JMO #1 in practice, does that count?) but I feel that practice tests alone won't work (well, they did for AIME, with a great MathPath breakout course, but I don't know). My ultimate goal next year is to win JMO. I want to find a book/books or other ways to study that give me a fighting chance. USAJMO problems, I feel, are at or a little above my level. I've heard ACOPS and PSS are good, but I can't stand how ACOPS doesn't have solutions. I think I'll go for these books (ACOPS and PSS) nonetheless, but does anyone have any suggestions?

EDIT: Also, I'm OK at, but not very comfortable with logs, preventing me from doing the last step of Click to reveal hidden text (spoilers) and for trig, I know sum identities, law of cosines and sines, sort of extended law of signs, but no product identities or stuff like that. How should I learn these so as not to be defeated by a trig or log question on JMO?

Thank you for reading through this long post and thanks in advance for advice,

-Yugrey
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yugrey
Aug 6, 2010
MathWise
Aug 12, 2010
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OK, well, I waste a lot of time, and so I don't think I'm time-efficient enough to do WOOT this year, sadly. However, my last 3 practice AIME scores have been 7,5, and 9, and I feel I can consistently score 7-9 (the 5 was late at night, and was very computational, and had lots of geo, one of which is good for my AIME performance. Luckily I take AIME for real in the morning/afternoon) and I feel I am getting to the point (after a few more practice AIMEs) where I feel I can start transitioning to Olympiad problems. However, I feel this will be hard without WOOT, but I may be able to take Olympiad Geo. Will going through practice tests really work? I plan to go from early USAMO's and CMO's to harder contests and problems, but olympiad problems are hard. Luckily, I have solved one (the JMO #1 in practice, does that count?) but I feel that practice tests alone won't work (well, they did for AIME, with a great MathPath breakout course, but I don't know). My ultimate goal next year is to win JMO. I want to find a book/books or other ways to study that give me a fighting chance. USAJMO problems, I feel, are at or a little above my level. I've heard ACOPS and PSS are good, but I can't stand how ACOPS doesn't have solutions. I think I'll go for these books (ACOPS and PSS) nonetheless, but does anyone have any suggestions?

EDIT: Also, I'm OK at, but not very comfortable with logs, preventing me from doing the last step of Click to reveal hidden text (spoilers) and for trig, I know sum identities, law of cosines and sines, sort of extended law of signs, but no product identities or stuff like that. How should I learn these so as not to be defeated by a trig or log question on JMO?

Thank you for reading through this long post and thanks in advance for advice,

-Yugrey
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I would suggest taking part in USAMTS. Some of the problems are similar to JMO problems and will be good practice.

As for books, if you think you are beyond the intermediate series of AoPS and AoPS Vol. 2, ACoPS and PSS, I'm quite sure that PSS and ACoPS are the best books to follow through with.

Doing basic olympiad problems from contests all around the world will really help. AoPS has an excellent collection of problems out there.
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I don't know if I can do everything in the Intermediate series yet, but I'm ready competition-wise to start Olympiad problems. USAMTS seems good though, Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance again,

Yugrey
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You really don't need to know the sum-to-product or product-to-sum trig identities for Olympiads. I highly doubt that there are many people who have them memorized (I don't bother). Those can be derived relatively quickly by adding and subtracting the appropriate sum identities from each other. On an Olympiad, this shouldn't take up too much of your time. Also, even if you do forget the trig identities, most of them can be easily derived.
Also, its not knowing formulas that will help you, its knowing when and how to apply them. For example, I was defeated by problem #6 on the JMO last year because I kept on bashing away at similar triangles and looking for ratios. I never tried trig (well, trig is like advanced ratios, but whatever), and so missed the pwnage Law of Cosines solution.
Also, I am not sure that I have ever seen an Olympiad problem requiring logs, but if you want to do well on the AMCs and AIME, you'd better know logs. So take Algebra II or something.
Also, be warned that winning the JMO is likely to be quite challenging. Last year you had to have a 35+ to be a winner. That means that you can only miss ONE problem. Last year I had a good first day, got every problem right, then missed the last two problems on the second day (yes, including the really easy #5).
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The USAJMO is a lot more elementary than the USAMO; 3/6 of the problems on last year's JMO required nothing but logic, and another two needed just angle chasing and the law of cosines.

I made it to HM last year knowing only the content of AoPS 1, so I suppose if you wanted to win it, mastering AoPS 1 and 2 would be enough. PSS would be serious overkill, for sure. As that guy above me said though, the required score to win is extremely high, so what you really want is precision with a few theorems, not piles and piles of them.

Practicing on problems to 'get used' to the kinds of problems also would be helpful. USAMTS would help with writing up rigorous proofs, I suppose.
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Jason27603 wrote:
You really don't need to know the sum-to-product or product-to-sum trig identities for Olympiads. I highly doubt that there are many people who have them memorized (I don't bother). Those can be derived relatively quickly by adding and subtracting the appropriate sum identities from each other. On an Olympiad, this shouldn't take up too much of your time. Also, even if you do forget the trig identities, most of them can be easily derived.
Also, its not knowing formulas that will help you, its knowing when and how to apply them. For example, I was defeated by problem #6 on the JMO last year because I kept on bashing away at similar triangles and looking for ratios. I never tried trig (well, trig is like advanced ratios, but whatever), and so missed the pwnage Law of Cosines solution.
Also, I am not sure that I have ever seen an Olympiad problem requiring logs, but if you want to do well on the AMCs and AIME, you'd better know logs. So take Algebra II or something.
Also, be warned that winning the JMO is likely to be quite challenging. Last year you had to have a 35+ to be a winner. That means that you can only miss ONE problem. Last year I had a good first day, got every problem right, then missed the last two problems on the second day (yes, including the really easy #5).

OK, this and the post above me had some good points, but I would prefer to look up all these identities and know their derivations. I'm officially learning logs. Anyway, I'm complaining so much about theorems because I'm young (13, going into 8th grade) and I prefer thought and problem-solving. That's what makes me good, because I don't know Cauchy-Schwartz, Melanauss's, and a great many other theorems but I have good problem solving skills, in my opinion, to go against by bad "theorem-knowing" skills. Big problems for me are speed, computation, and knowing theorems. Of course, I could use preparation that helps insight and thought much more than anyone, but I need extra help on my theorems and identities, since i've only been doing competitions for a year. By the way, to Kevin, I would be fine with an HM too, but I'd really like a win. I'm just scared of an inequality/trig log/theorem-heavy geometry J3/J6. Anyway, thanks for the suggestions. I hope they keep coming.

-Yugrey.
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yugrey wrote:
had lots of geo

lol why do people hate geo? AIME geo is trivial.
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AIME geo is not trivial for a lot of us (*cough* me *cough*). It isn't really very nice/helpful to say that. The poster said that he wasn't good at geo and he was taking the Olympiad geo class, it doesn't help by telling him that AIME geo is trivial, that just makes him feel worse. IMHO, since he's only in 8th grade (same as me, and I get 4 or 5's on AIMEs), a 9 on an AIME is very good, screwing the geometry completely.
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yugrey
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First of all, I'm not offended when people express their opinions that something is trivial (I do this all the time). I am not that bad at geo. However, I am very slow at it so I think I could do Oly geo better than AIME geo. My big geo weakness is auxiliary lines. That's why I plan to take Oly geo, since I could do 4 problems on the pretest (2 right, one gave up and looked at the answer, then without particularly thinking of the answer, realized what the answer was, one made a little stupid mistake with the whole idea correct- none of those 4 involved auxiliary lines). I'm relatively decent at similarity (relative to my other subjects, I'm not saying absolutely good or bad, because that would either insult me or someone reading this and after all, it's relative), but I think I know the Intro Books if they are AMC Geo. Yet, there's no Intermediate Geometry. I heard Challenging Problems in Geo was good. Also, I think PSS and ACOPS will probably help a lot for JMO, and both help problem solving/logic, which is what you need on JMO since there are no inequalities you have to bash with theorems and even the geo is almost theorem-free, as opposed to USAMO, which is intended for people with more problem solving experience (although I bet USAMO is better than JMO once you've seen your fair share of theorems.)

General note on theorems: OK the advice is that theorems/identities are not the thing to focus on. I agree, but they may be more important than you think. Since most algebra AIME problems involve factorizations of polynomials, I think about how screwed I would be if I thought $(a+b)^2=a^2+b^2$. I can't do olympiad inequalities, since, as I said before, IDK Cauchy and I know AM-GM but have never really practiced using it.

Another thing to say: The harder a competition is, the more a like it and the better I am at it relatively. I missed AIME by 1.5 points this year and if I had taken the AIME, I probably would have got 3-5 (those were my scores a little later, when I started to look at AIMEs). My brain has grown since then and I have used it, but I think 3-5 is still good for a non-AIME qualifier even on this AMC. AMC 12,, maybe not. I took AMC 10, though. Also, I solved my unofficial JMO problem rigorously when I was at 5 on a Practice AIME.

Please continue to make more great suggestions- what books, practice tests, AoPS classes.
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Aryth
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yugrey wrote:
I can't do olympiad inequalities, since, as I said before, IDK Cauchy and I know AM-GM but have never really practiced using it.

http://www.math.cmu.edu/~ploh/docs/math/b2-inequalities.pdf
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yugrey
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How would you complete that ugly square on the warmup? Seems interesting though.
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kevin7 wrote:
The USAJMO is a lot more elementary than the USAMO.

What about the earlier USAMOs (before 2000 etc., or even before 1990)? I hope to do the USAMO next year, or USAJMO, but since I have almost no experience with Olympiad problems, USAJMO and the like difficulty seem like good places to start.

Unfortunately, I bombed the USAJMO day 1, so I've kind of wasted the only USAJMO there is.
I'm wondering if there are other contests of similar difficulty. I'm considering (as starting points) these, but I'd like some of your opinions about these:

- The last 5 problems on AIME, since the USAJMO problems are roughly the level of 13-15 on AIME.
- Really early USAMOs (e.g. before 2000, or even before 1990); these seem easier, but I'm not sure about its relative difficulty to the USAJMO.
- Canadian Math Olympiad; I don't know a lot, but a lot of people have talked about this.
- USAMTS (I'm sure someone already mentioned this)
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darkdieuguerre
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Have you seen the ratings here? The Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad is probably of similar difficulty, though with only one year of the USAJMO, it's hard to say.
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I suggest guys to have a look at the contest section and NMO forum to check some contests. For those who would like to add some problems from the NMO forum to the contests section please pm admin nsato. And whenever you solve problems from a particular competition as offered on AoPS please add a some information to the ranking wiki. Cheers.
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yugrey
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National Olympiads look hard. Are there any other good books to suggest (remember, this is for 7-9 scorers on the AIME, we're not that good yet). Is there anything better than ACOPS and PSS? Early AIME problems are comparable to late AMC problems, but can I get a list of competitions comparable to late AIME problems and some goods books to use them with?
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BarbieRocks
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HMMT Has some good Medium-Hard AIME Problems.
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speedcuber96
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So does the Stanford Math Tournament (SMT). They archives of old problems:

http://sumo.stanford.edu/smt/
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Jason27603 wrote:
Also, I am not sure that I have ever seen an Olympiad problem requiring logs

Well, a popular solution to 2009 Iberoamerican #2 was with logs http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/resources.php?c=1&cid=29&year=2009
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yugrey
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Yay! I got 4/5 problems on the 1972 USAMO.:) Should I just keep working through early USAMOs? It turns out there is a small chance I get to take WOOt, not a 0 chance! :)
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yugrey wrote:
How would you complete that ugly square on the warmup? Seems interesting though.
I think there's actually a typo in it: the 176 before the > should be a 179, and the > should be a $\geq$ (or just replace the 176 with 180).
Solution to corrected problem
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