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k a May Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
jlacosta   0
May 1, 2025
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jlacosta
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
Feb 27, 2007
NoDealsHere
May 4, 2019
An easy combinatorics
fananhminh   0
2 minutes ago
Source: Vietnam
Let S={1, 2, 3,..., 65}. A is a subset of S such that the sum of A's elements is not divided by any element in A. Find the maximum of |A|.
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fananhminh
2 minutes ago
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Ah, easy one
irregular22104   0
2 minutes ago
Source: Own
In the number series $1,9,9,9,8,...,$ every next number (from the fifth number) is the unit number of the sum of the four numbers preceding it. Is there any cases that we get the numbers $1234$ and $5678$ in this series?
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irregular22104
2 minutes ago
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PA = QB
zhaoli   8
N 3 minutes ago by pku
Source: China North MO 2005-1
$AB$ is a chord of a circle with center $O$, $M$ is the midpoint of $AB$. A non-diameter chord is drawn through $M$ and intersects the circle at $C$ and $D$. The tangents of the circle from points $C$ and $D$ intersect line $AB$ at $P$ and $Q$, respectively. Prove that $PA$ = $QB$.
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1 viewing
zhaoli
Sep 2, 2005
pku
3 minutes ago
student that has at least 10 friends
parmenides51   2
N 9 minutes ago by AylyGayypow009
Source: 2023 Greece JBMO TST P1
A class has $24$ students. Each group consisting of three of the students meet, and choose one of the other $21$ students, A, to make him a gift. In this case, A considers each member of the group that offered him a gift as being his friend. Prove that there is a student that has at least $10$ friends.
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parmenides51
May 17, 2024
AylyGayypow009
9 minutes ago
Interesting inequality
sealight2107   6
N 18 minutes ago by TNKT
Source: Own
Let $a,b,c>0$ such that $a+b+c=3$. Find the minimum value of:
$Q=\frac{a}{b}+\frac{b}{c}+\frac{c}{a}+\frac{1}{a^3+b^3+abc}+\frac{1}{b^3+c^3+abc}+\frac{1}{c^3+a^3+abc}$
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sealight2107
May 6, 2025
TNKT
18 minutes ago
truncated cone box packing problem
chomk   0
18 minutes ago
box : 48*48*32
truncated cone: upper circle(radius=2), lower circle(radius=8), height=12

how many truncated cones are packed in a box?

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chomk
18 minutes ago
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Dwarfes and river
RagvaloD   8
N 27 minutes ago by AngryKnot
Source: All Russian Olympiad 2017,Day1,grade 9,P3
There are $100$ dwarfes with weight $1,2,...,100$. They sit on the left riverside. They can not swim, but they have one boat with capacity 100. River has strong river flow, so every dwarf has power only for one passage from right side to left as oarsman. On every passage can be only one oarsman. Can all dwarfes get to right riverside?
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RagvaloD
May 3, 2017
AngryKnot
27 minutes ago
Hard Inequality
Asilbek777   1
N 36 minutes ago by m4thbl3nd3r
Waits for Solution
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Asilbek777
42 minutes ago
m4thbl3nd3r
36 minutes ago
Proving that these are concyclic.
Acrylic3491   1
N an hour ago by Funcshun840
In $\bigtriangleup ABC$, points $P$ and $Q$ are isogonal conjugates. The tangent to $(BPC)$ at $P$ and the tangent to $(BQC)$ at Q, meet at $R$. $AR$ intersects $(ABC)$ at $D$. Prove that points $P$,$Q$, $R$ and $D$ are concyclic.

Any hints on this ?
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Acrylic3491
Today at 9:06 AM
Funcshun840
an hour ago
Concurrent Gergonnians in Pentagon
numbertheorist17   18
N an hour ago by Ilikeminecraft
Source: USA TSTST 2014, Problem 2
Consider a convex pentagon circumscribed about a circle. We name the lines that connect vertices of the pentagon with the opposite points of tangency with the circle gergonnians.
(a) Prove that if four gergonnians are conncurrent, the all five of them are concurrent.
(b) Prove that if there is a triple of gergonnians that are concurrent, then there is another triple of gergonnians that are concurrent.
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numbertheorist17
Jul 16, 2014
Ilikeminecraft
an hour ago
Planes and cities
RagvaloD   11
N an hour ago by AngryKnot
Source: All Russian Olympiad 2017,Day1,grade 9,P1
In country some cities are connected by oneway flights( There are no more then one flight between two cities). City $A$ called "available" for city $B$, if there is flight from $B$ to $A$, maybe with some transfers. It is known, that for every 2 cities $P$ and $Q$ exist city $R$, such that $P$ and $Q$ are available from $R$. Prove, that exist city $A$, such that every city is available for $A$.
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RagvaloD
May 3, 2017
AngryKnot
an hour ago
Hard geometry
Lukariman   4
N an hour ago by Lukariman
Given circle (O) and chord AB with different diameters. The tangents of circle (O) at A and B intersect at point P. On the small arc AB, take point C so that triangle CAB is not isosceles. The lines CA and BP intersect at D, BC and AP intersect at E. Prove that the centers of the circles circumscribing triangles ACE, BCD and OPC are collinear.
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Lukariman
Today at 4:28 AM
Lukariman
an hour ago
Three concurrent circles
jayme   0
an hour ago
Source: own?
Dear Mathlinkers,

1. ABC a triangle
2. 0 the circumcircle
3. Tb, Tc the tangents to 0 wrt. B, C
4. D the point of intersection of Tb and Tc
5. B', C' the symmetrics of B, C wrt AC, AB
6. 1b, 1c the circumcircles of the triangles BB'D, CC'D.

Prove : 1b, 1c and 0 are concurrents.

Sincerely
Jean-Louis
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jayme
an hour ago
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Proving radical axis through orthocenter
azzam2912   1
N an hour ago by Funcshun840
In acute triangle $ABC$ let $D, E$ and $F$ denote the feet of the altitudes from $A, B$ and $C$, respectively. Let line $DE$ intersect circumcircle $ABC$ at points $G, H$. Similarly, let line $DF$ intersect circumcircle $ABC$ at points $I, J$. Prove that the radical axis of circles $EIJ$ and $FGH$ passes through the orthocenter of triangle $ABC$
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azzam2912
4 hours ago
Funcshun840
an hour ago
IMO ShortList 2002, geometry problem 7
orl   109
N Apr 27, 2025 by Ilikeminecraft
Source: IMO ShortList 2002, geometry problem 7
The incircle $ \Omega$ of the acute-angled triangle $ ABC$ is tangent to its side $ BC$ at a point $ K$. Let $ AD$ be an altitude of triangle $ ABC$, and let $ M$ be the midpoint of the segment $ AD$. If $ N$ is the common point of the circle $ \Omega$ and the line $ KM$ (distinct from $ K$), then prove that the incircle $ \Omega$ and the circumcircle of triangle $ BCN$ are tangent to each other at the point $ N$.
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orl
Sep 28, 2004
Ilikeminecraft
Apr 27, 2025
IMO ShortList 2002, geometry problem 7
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Source: IMO ShortList 2002, geometry problem 7
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