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k a May Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
jlacosta   0
May 1, 2025
May is an exciting month! National MATHCOUNTS is the second week of May in Washington D.C. and our Founder, Richard Rusczyk will be presenting a seminar, Preparing Strong Math Students for College and Careers, on May 11th.

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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
50 points in plane
pohoatza   13
N 3 minutes ago by cursed_tangent1434
Source: JBMO 2007, Bulgaria, problem 3
Given are $50$ points in the plane, no three of them belonging to a same line. Each of these points is colored using one of four given colors. Prove that there is a color and at least $130$ scalene triangles with vertices of that color.
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pohoatza
Jun 28, 2007
cursed_tangent1434
3 minutes ago
D1024 : Can you do that?
Dattier   5
N 4 minutes ago by SimplisticFormulas
Source: les dattes à Dattier
Let $x_{n+1}=x_n^2+1$ and $x_0=1$.

Can you calculate $\sum\limits_{i=1}^{2^{2025}} x_i \mod 10^{30}$?
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Dattier
Apr 29, 2025
SimplisticFormulas
4 minutes ago
Hardest N7 in history
OronSH   25
N 6 minutes ago by sansgankrsngupta
Source: ISL 2023 N7
Let $a,b,c,d$ be positive integers satisfying \[\frac{ab}{a+b}+\frac{cd}{c+d}=\frac{(a+b)(c+d)}{a+b+c+d}.\]Determine all possible values of $a+b+c+d$.
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OronSH
Jul 17, 2024
sansgankrsngupta
6 minutes ago
Friends Status are changing
lminsl   64
N an hour ago by SteppenWolfMath
Source: IMO 2019 Problem 3
A social network has $2019$ users, some pairs of whom are friends. Whenever user $A$ is friends with user $B$, user $B$ is also friends with user $A$. Events of the following kind may happen repeatedly, one at a time:
[list]
[*] Three users $A$, $B$, and $C$ such that $A$ is friends with both $B$ and $C$, but $B$ and $C$ are not friends, change their friendship statuses such that $B$ and $C$ are now friends, but $A$ is no longer friends with $B$, and no longer friends with $C$. All other friendship statuses are unchanged.
[/list]
Initially, $1010$ users have $1009$ friends each, and $1009$ users have $1010$ friends each. Prove that there exists a sequence of such events after which each user is friends with at most one other user.

Proposed by Adrian Beker, Croatia
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lminsl
Jul 16, 2019
SteppenWolfMath
an hour ago
hard problem
Cobedangiu   2
N an hour ago by Cobedangiu
$a,b,c>0$ and $a+b+c=7$. CM:
$\dfrac{a}{b}+\dfrac{b}{c}+\dfrac{c}{a}+abc \ge ab+bc+ca-2$
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Cobedangiu
Yesterday at 4:24 PM
Cobedangiu
an hour ago
well-known NT
Tuleuchina   9
N 2 hours ago by Blackbeam999
Source: Kazakhstan mo 2019, P6, grade 9
Find all integer triples $(a,b,c)$ and natural $k$ such that $a^2+b^2+c^2=3k(ab+bc+ac)$
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Tuleuchina
Mar 20, 2019
Blackbeam999
2 hours ago
Inequality involving square root cube root and 8th root
bamboozled   0
2 hours ago
If $a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,k\in R^+$ and $a+b+c=d+e+f=g+h+k=8$, then find the minimum value of $\sqrt{ad^3 g^4} +\sqrt[3]{be^3 h^4} + \sqrt[8]{cf^3 k^4}$
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bamboozled
2 hours ago
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Old problem
kwin   2
N 2 hours ago by kwin
Let $a, b, c \ge 0$ and $ ab+bc+ca>0$. Prove that:
$$ \frac{1}{(a+b)^2} + \frac{1}{(b+c)^2} + \frac{1}{(c+a)^2} + \frac{15}{(a+b+c)^2} \ge \frac{6}{ab+bc+ca}$$Is there any generalizations?
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kwin
Sunday at 1:12 PM
kwin
2 hours ago
functional equation
henderson   4
N 2 hours ago by megarnie
Source: unknown
Find all functions $f :\mathbb{R^+}\to\mathbb{R^+}$, satisfying the condition

$f(1+xf(y))=yf(x+y)$

for any positive reals $x$ and $y$.
4 replies
henderson
Oct 8, 2015
megarnie
2 hours ago
Parallelograms and concyclicity
Lukaluce   31
N 2 hours ago by Ihatecombin
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.
31 replies
Lukaluce
Apr 14, 2025
Ihatecombin
2 hours ago
My Unsolved FE in R+
ZeltaQN2008   2
N 2 hours ago by megarnie
Source: Ho Chi Minh TST 2017 - 2018
Find all functions $f:\mathbb{R}^+ \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^+$ such that for all any $x,y\in (0,\infty):$
$$f(1+xf(y))=yf(x+y)$$
2 replies
ZeltaQN2008
3 hours ago
megarnie
2 hours ago
Something nice
KhuongTrang   32
N 3 hours ago by arqady
Source: own
Problem. Given $a,b,c$ be non-negative real numbers such that $ab+bc+ca=1.$ Prove that

$$\sqrt{a+1}+\sqrt{b+1}+\sqrt{c+1}\le 1+2\sqrt{a+b+c+abc}.$$
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KhuongTrang
Nov 1, 2023
arqady
3 hours ago
Infimum of decreasing sequence b_n/n^2
a1267ab   35
N 3 hours ago by shendrew7
Source: USA Winter TST for IMO 2020, Problem 1 and TST for EGMO 2020, Problem 3, by Carl Schildkraut and Milan Haiman
Choose positive integers $b_1, b_2, \dotsc$ satisfying
\[1=\frac{b_1}{1^2} > \frac{b_2}{2^2} > \frac{b_3}{3^2} > \frac{b_4}{4^2} > \dotsb\]and let $r$ denote the largest real number satisfying $\tfrac{b_n}{n^2} \geq r$ for all positive integers $n$. What are the possible values of $r$ across all possible choices of the sequence $(b_n)$?

Carl Schildkraut and Milan Haiman
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a1267ab
Dec 16, 2019
shendrew7
3 hours ago
IMO Genre Predictions
ohiorizzler1434   52
N 3 hours ago by justaguy_69
Everybody, with IMO upcoming, what are you predictions for the problem genres?


Personally I predict: predict
52 replies
ohiorizzler1434
May 3, 2025
justaguy_69
3 hours ago
Number Theory Chain!
JetFire008   61
N Yesterday at 3:57 PM by JetFire008
I will post a question and someone has to answer it. Then they have to post a question and someone else will answer it and so on. We can only post questions related to Number Theory and each problem should be more difficult than the previous. Let's start!

Question 1
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JetFire008
Apr 7, 2025
JetFire008
Yesterday at 3:57 PM
Number Theory Chain!
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