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k a April Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
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Apr 2, 2025
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Apr 2, 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
Inequalities
hphuong2k9   0
3 minutes ago
Let ?, ? and ? be three positive real numbers satisfying ? + ? + ? = 3
Find the minimum value of \sigma \root{3}{\dfrac{a^2 + b^2}{2}}

Also can I ask how to use latex? This is my first post on this website and I haven't found an useful tutor yet
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hphuong2k9
3 minutes ago
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Arbitrary point on BC and its relation with orthocenter
falantrng   24
N 3 minutes ago by SomeonesPenguin
Source: Balkan MO 2025 P2
In an acute-angled triangle \(ABC\), \(H\) be the orthocenter of it and \(D\) be any point on the side \(BC\). The points \(E, F\) are on the segments \(AB, AC\), respectively, such that the points \(A, B, D, F\) and \(A, C, D, E\) are cyclic. The segments \(BF\) and \(CE\) intersect at \(P.\) \(L\) is a point on \(HA\) such that \(LC\) is tangent to the circumcircle of triangle \(PBC\) at \(C.\) \(BH\) and \(CP\) intersect at \(X\). Prove that the points \(D, X, \) and \(L\) lie on the same line.

Proposed by Theoklitos Parayiou, Cyprus
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falantrng
Apr 27, 2025
SomeonesPenguin
3 minutes ago
Constructing orthocenter using ruler with width
Quantum-Phantom   20
N 4 minutes ago by cj13609517288
Source: Canada MO 2024/5
Initially, three non-collinear points, $A$, $B$, and $C$, are marked on the plane. You have a pencil and a double-edged ruler of width $1$. Using them, you may perform the following operations:
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[*]Mark an arbitrary point in the plane.
[*]Mark an arbitrary point on an already drawn line.
[*]If two points $P_1$ and $P_2$ are marked, draw the line connecting $P_1$ and $P_2$.
[*]If two non-parallel lines $l_1$ and $l_2$ are drawn, mark the intersection of $l_1$ and $l_2$.
[*]If a line $l$ is drawn, draw a line parallel to $l$ that is at distance $1$ away from $l$ (note that two such lines may be drawn).
[/list]
Prove that it is possible to mark the orthocenter of $ABC$ using these operations.
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Quantum-Phantom
Mar 8, 2024
cj13609517288
4 minutes ago
problem ...
Cobedangiu   0
4 minutes ago
Source: own
Let $k \in N$. Prove that:
$6k^2+6k+1$ can be written as the sum of two square numbers
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Cobedangiu
4 minutes ago
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all functions satisfying f(x+yf(x))+y = xy + f(x+y)
falantrng   30
N 5 minutes ago by SomeonesPenguin
Source: Balkan MO 2025 P3
Find all functions $f\colon \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ such that for all $x,y \in \mathbb{R}$,
\[f(x+yf(x))+y = xy + f(x+y).\]
Proposed by Giannis Galamatis, Greece
30 replies
3 viewing
falantrng
Apr 27, 2025
SomeonesPenguin
5 minutes ago
Exponents proble.m
biit   0
9 minutes ago
Find the value of $\ 2006^{100}+2006^{100}+2006^{100}+........+2006^{100}(2006 times)+2006^{101}+2006^{101}+.....+2006^{101}(2005 times)+.......... + 2006^{2005}+2006^{2005}+2006^{2005}.........+2006^{2005}(2005 times)$
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biit
9 minutes ago
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Help me :)
M.Roueintan   0
13 minutes ago
Hi everyone
I actually didn't know where to ask this question, so i'm sorry for asking here
Do you know a good resource for learning complex numbers? something like book..
What about a good resource for learning polynomial Interpolation?
Thanks
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M.Roueintan
13 minutes ago
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Find k so that S_k is finite
Ankoganit   17
N 15 minutes ago by sansgankrsngupta
Source: India TST 2018, D2 P1
For a natural number $k>1$, define $S_k$ to be the set of all triplets $(n,a,b)$ of natural numbers, with $n$ odd and $\gcd (a,b)=1$, such that $a+b=k$ and $n$ divides $a^n+b^n$. Find all values of $k$ for which $S_k$ is finite.
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Ankoganit
Jul 18, 2018
sansgankrsngupta
15 minutes ago
inequality problem
pennypc123456789   1
N 21 minutes ago by GeoMorocco
Given $a,b,c$ be positive real numbers . Prove that
$$\frac{ab}{(a+b)^2} +\frac{bc}{(b+c)^2}+\frac{ac}{(a+c)^2} \ge \frac{6abc }{(a+b)(b+c)(a+c)}$$
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pennypc123456789
an hour ago
GeoMorocco
21 minutes ago
Construct the orthocenter by drawing perpendicular bisectors
MarkBcc168   24
N 38 minutes ago by cj13609517288
Source: ELMO 2020 P3
Janabel has a device that, when given two distinct points $U$ and $V$ in the plane, draws the perpendicular bisector of $UV$. Show that if three lines forming a triangle are drawn, Janabel can mark the orthocenter of the triangle using this device, a pencil, and no other tools.

Proposed by Fedir Yudin.
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MarkBcc168
Jul 28, 2020
cj13609517288
38 minutes ago
Problem involving Power of centroid
Mahdi_Mashayekhi   1
N 39 minutes ago by sami1618
Given is an triangle $ABC$ with centroid $G$. Let $p$ be the power of $G$ w.r.t circumcircle of $ABC$ and $q$ be the power of $G$ w.r.t incircle of $ABC$. prove that $\frac{a^2+b^2+c^2}{12} \le q-p < \frac{a^2+b^2+c^2}{6}$.
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Mahdi_Mashayekhi
an hour ago
sami1618
39 minutes ago
Classical-looking inequality
Orestis_Lignos   8
N an hour ago by Baimukh
Source: Greece National Olympiad 2022, Problem 3
The positive real numbers $a,b,c,d$ satisfy the equality
$$a+bc+cd+db+\frac{1}{ab^2c^2d^2}=18.$$Find the maximum possible value of $a$.
8 replies
Orestis_Lignos
Feb 26, 2022
Baimukh
an hour ago
BMO 2024 SL C1
GreekIdiot   10
N an hour ago by GreekIdiot
Let $n$, $k$ be positive integers. Julia and Florian play a game on a $2n \times 2n$ board. Julia
has secretly tiled the entire board with invisible dominos. Florian now chooses $k$ cells.
All dominos covering at least one of these cells then turn visible. Determine the minimal
value of $k$ such that Florian has a strategy to always deduce the entire tiling.
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GreekIdiot
Apr 27, 2025
GreekIdiot
an hour ago
Easy Mixtilinear Incircle Problem
USJL   15
N an hour ago by wassupevery1
Source: 2021 Taiwan TST Round 3 Independent Study 2-G
Let $ABC$ be a triangle with $AB<AC$, and let $I_a$ be its $A$-excenter. Let $D$ be the projection of $I_a$ to $BC$. Let $X$ be the intersection of $AI_a$ and $BC$, and let $Y,Z$ be the points on $AC,AB$, respectively, such that $X,Y,Z$ are on a line perpendicular to $AI_a$. Let the circumcircle of $AYZ$ intersect $AI_a$ again at $U$. Suppose that the tangent of the circumcircle of $ABC$ at $A$ intersects $BC$ at $T$, and the segment $TU$ intersects the circumcircle of $ABC$ at $V$. Show that $\angle BAV=\angle DAC$.

Proposed by usjl.
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USJL
May 1, 2021
wassupevery1
an hour ago
Line through vertices of two squares tangent to circumcircle
Shu   3
N Jun 12, 2024 by parmenides51
Source: XI Olimpíada Matemática del Cono Sur (2000)
In square $ABCD$ (labeled clockwise), let $P$ be any point on $BC$ and construct square $APRS$ (labeled clockwise). Prove that line $CR$ is tangent to the circumcircle of triangle $ABC$.
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Shu
Jul 26, 2011
parmenides51
Jun 12, 2024
Line through vertices of two squares tangent to circumcircle
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In square $ABCD$ (labeled clockwise), let $P$ be any point on $BC$ and construct square $APRS$ (labeled clockwise). Prove that line $CR$ is tangent to the circumcircle of triangle $ABC$.
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Just see that #APCR is inscribed one, 'coz angles ACP and ARP are equal (=45°). Then ACR is a right angle, and so CR is tangent to circle with diameter AC.. =]
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