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k a May Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
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k i Zero tolerance
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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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D1038 : A generalization of Jensen
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Source: les dattes à Dattier
Let $f \in C^1([0,1]), g \in C^2(f([0;1]))$.

Is it true that

$$\min(|g''|)\times \min(|f'|^2) \leq 24 \times\left|\int_0^1g(f(x)) \text{d}x- g(\int_0^1 f(x) \text{d}x) \right| \leq \max(|g''|)\times \max(|f'|^2)$$?
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Can't be power of 2
shobber   31
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Source: APMO 1998
Show that for any positive integers $a$ and $b$, $(36a+b)(a+36b)$ cannot be a power of $2$.
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Brilliant Problem
M11100111001Y1R   4
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Source: Iran TST 2025 Test 3 Problem 3
Find all sequences \( (a_n) \) of natural numbers such that for every pair of natural numbers \( r \) and \( s \), the following inequality holds:
\[ \frac{1}{2} < \frac{\gcd(a_r, a_s)}{\gcd(r, s)} < 2 \]
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Primeniyazidayi   1
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Source: own(probably)
Find all functions $f:R \rightarrow R$ such that $xf(x^2+2f(y)-yf(x))=f(x)^3-f(y)(f(x^2)-2f(x))$ for all $x,y \in \mathbb{R}$
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not fun equation
DottedCaculator   13
N 2 hours ago by Adywastaken
Source: USA TST 2024/6
Find all functions $f\colon\mathbb R\to\mathbb R$ such that for all real numbers $x$ and $y$,
\[f(xf(y))+f(y)=f(x+y)+f(xy).\]
Milan Haiman
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Serbian selection contest for the IMO 2025 - P6
OgnjenTesic   12
N 3 hours ago by atdaotlohbh
Source: Serbian selection contest for the IMO 2025
For an $n \times n$ table filled with natural numbers, we say it is a divisor table if:
- the numbers in the $i$-th row are exactly all the divisors of some natural number $r_i$,
- the numbers in the $j$-th column are exactly all the divisors of some natural number $c_j$,
- $r_i \ne r_j$ for every $i \ne j$.

A prime number $p$ is given. Determine the smallest natural number $n$, divisible by $p$, such that there exists an $n \times n$ divisor table, or prove that such $n$ does not exist.

Proposed by Pavle Martinović
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Geometry with fix circle
falantrng   33
N 3 hours ago by zuat.e
Source: RMM 2018 Problem 6
Fix a circle $\Gamma$, a line $\ell$ to tangent $\Gamma$, and another circle $\Omega$ disjoint from $\ell$ such that $\Gamma$ and $\Omega$ lie on opposite sides of $\ell$. The tangents to $\Gamma$ from a variable point $X$ on $\Omega$ meet $\ell$ at $Y$ and $Z$. Prove that, as $X$ varies over $\Omega$, the circumcircle of $XYZ$ is tangent to two fixed circles.
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USAMO 2001 Problem 2
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Let $ABC$ be a triangle and let $\omega$ be its incircle. Denote by $D_1$ and $E_1$ the points where $\omega$ is tangent to sides $BC$ and $AC$, respectively. Denote by $D_2$ and $E_2$ the points on sides $BC$ and $AC$, respectively, such that $CD_2=BD_1$ and $CE_2=AE_1$, and denote by $P$ the point of intersection of segments $AD_2$ and $BE_2$. Circle $\omega$ intersects segment $AD_2$ at two points, the closer of which to the vertex $A$ is denoted by $Q$. Prove that $AQ=D_2P$.
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German-Style System of Equations
Primeniyazidayi   1
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Source: German MO 2025 11/12 Day 1 P1
Solve the system of equations in $\mathbb{R}$

\begin{align*} \frac{a}{c} &= b-\sqrt{b}+c \\ \sqrt{\frac{a}{c}} &= \sqrt{b}+1 \\ \sqrt[4]{\frac{a}{c}} &=\sqrt[3]{b}-1 \end{align*}
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gcd nt from switzerland
AshAuktober   5
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Source: Swiss 2025 Second Round
Let $a, b$ be positive integers. Prove that the expression
\[\frac{\gcd(a+b,ab)}{\gcd(a,b)}\]is always a positive integer, and determine all possible values it can take.
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Shortlist 2017/G1
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N 4 hours ago by Ilikeminecraft
Source: Shortlist 2017
Let $ABCDE$ be a convex pentagon such that $AB=BC=CD$, $\angle{EAB}=\angle{BCD}$, and $\angle{EDC}=\angle{CBA}$. Prove that the perpendicular line from $E$ to $BC$ and the line segments $AC$ and $BD$ are concurrent.
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Problem 2, Grade 12th RMO Shortlist - Year 2002
sticknycu   5
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Let $A \in M_2(C), A \neq O_2, A \neq I_2, n \in \mathbb{N}^*$ and $S_n = \{ X \in M_2(C) | X^n = A \}$.
Show:
a) $S_n$ with multiplication of matrixes operation is making an isomorphic-group structure with $U_n$.
b) $A^2 = A$.

Marian Andronache
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3rd AKhIMO for University Students, P1
UzbekMathematician   1
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Source: AKhIMO 2025, P1
There are two circles in the $xy-$plane centered on the $y-$axis which are tangent to both the parabola $y=x^2$ and the line $y=2025$. Determine the lengths of the circles' diameters.
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3rd AKhIMO for university students, p4
UzbekMathematician   1
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Source: AKhIMO 2025, P4
Define a sequence $a_1, a_2, a_3, ... $ by $a_1=2, a_2=5$ and $a_{n+2}=f(a_n, a_{n+1})$ for all $n \ge 1$, where $$f(x,y)=5(x+y)+2\sqrt{6x^2+15xy+6y^2}.$$Show that $a_n$ is an integer for all $n\ge 1$.
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Find the formula
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Find a formula in compact form for the general term of the sequence defined recursively by $x_1=1, x_n=x_{n-1}+n-1$ if $n$ is even.
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Find a formula in compact form for the general term of the sequence defined recursively by $x_1=1, x_n=x_{n-1}+n-1$ if $n$ is even.
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Just add the corresponding sides of the equality in the recursion and you get x(n)=1+2+3+...+(n-1)=n(n-1)/2
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Roger.Moore wrote:
Just add the corresponding sides of the equality in the recursion and you get x(n)=1+2+3+...+(n-1)=n(n-1)/2

I don't think your argument is valid....you can only handle it iff $n$ is even....but your result isn't true
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the sequence is not well defined, how would you compute $x_3$ ?
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Hello_Kitty wrote:
the sequence is not well defined, how would you compute $x_3$ ?

isn't it just \[x_3=x_2+2=x_1+1+2=1+1+2=4\]also ez sol

edit: you know that moment when you didn't read the problem statement clearly? yeah today i learned im an idiot
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