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k i Adding contests to the Contest Collections
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N Apr 5, 2023 by v_Enhance
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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:


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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.

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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.


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GCD Functional Equation
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N 9 minutes ago by ihategeo_1969
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Let $f: \mathbb Z\to \{1, 2, \dots, 10^{100}\}$ be a function satisfying
$$\gcd(f(x), f(y)) = \gcd(f(x), x-y)$$for all integers $x$ and $y$. Show that there exist positive integers $m$ and $n$ such that $f(x) = \gcd(m+x, n)$ for all integers $x$.

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N 27 minutes ago by jasperE3
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Prove that there are infinitely many triples $(a, b, p)$ of positive integers with $p$ prime, $a < p$, and $b < p$, such that $(a + b)^p - a^p - b^p$ is a multiple of $p^3$.

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Point P inside cyclic ABCD with < BPC = < BAP + < PDC
Jutaro   13
N Apr 15, 2006 by Arne
Source: Peru TST for the Iberoamerican Olympiad 2005; UK FST2 2006 - Question 2
Let $ABCD$ be a cyclic quadrilateral, and $P$ a point in its interior such that $\angle BPC= \angle PAB+\angle PDC$. Let $E$, $F$ and $G$ be the orthogonal projections of $P$ on the sides $AB$, $DA$ and $CD$, respectively. Show that triangles $BPC$ and $EFG$ are similar.

Alternative formulation. A point $P$ is in the interior of the cyclic quadrilateral $ABCD$ and has the property $\angle BPC = \angle BAP+\angle PDC$. The feet of the perpendiculars from $P$ to $AB$, $AD$ and $DC$ are respectively denoted $E$, $F$ and $G$. Show that $\triangle FEG$ and $\triangle PBC$ are similar.
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Jutaro
Aug 25, 2005
Arne
Apr 15, 2006
Point P inside cyclic ABCD with < BPC = < BAP + < PDC
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Let $ABCD$ be a cyclic quadrilateral, and $P$ a point in its interior such that $\angle BPC= \angle PAB+\angle PDC$. Let $E$, $F$ and $G$ be the orthogonal projections of $P$ on the sides $AB$, $DA$ and $CD$, respectively. Show that triangles $BPC$ and $EFG$ are similar.

Alternative formulation. A point $P$ is in the interior of the cyclic quadrilateral $ABCD$ and has the property $\angle BPC = \angle BAP+\angle PDC$. The feet of the perpendiculars from $P$ to $AB$, $AD$ and $DC$ are respectively denoted $E$, $F$ and $G$. Show that $\triangle FEG$ and $\triangle PBC$ are similar.
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IM pretty sure ive seen this problem before its from yugoslavia or chekoslovakia somewhere like that :?
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If I didn't remember wrongly, this one is from Austrian-Polish Match.
For the problem, construct the circumcircles of $\triangle ABP$ and $\triangle CDP$. The crucial point is to make use of the radical center and radical axis of the three circles.
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We need to prove that $\frac{AP \cdot CP}{BP \cdot DP} = \frac{AC}{BD}$.

(It is very easy to see that the statement which we need to prove is equivalent to this equality.)

I still need to decide how I'm going to do that :lol: seems to be not so easy.
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Starting with 2 arbitrary circles (K), (L) intersecting at points P, Q and their internal bisector circle (X) centered at their internal homothety center X and with radius XP = XQ, draw 2 arbitrary lines through the point X, the 1st one in the angular sector $\angle PXL$, the other one in the angular sector $\angle PXK$. Let the 1st line meet the circle (K) at points $A, A_0$ and the circle (L) at points $B, B_0$, the points A, B lying on the same side of the center line KL. Likewise, let the 2st line meet the circle (K) at points $C, C_0$ and the circle (L) at points $D, D_0$, the points A, B, C, D lying on the same side of the center line KL. The power of the point X to the circles (K), (L) is $XA \cdot XA_0 = XC \cdot XC_0,$ $XB \cdot XB_0 = XC \cdot XC_0,$ respectively. Since X is the internal homothety center of the circles (K), (L), $\frac{XA_0}{XB} = \frac{XA}{XB_0} = \frac{XC_0}{XD} = \frac{XC}{XD_0}.$ Combining, $XA \cdot XB = XC \cdot XD = XA_0 \cdot XB_0 = XC_0 \cdot XD_0$, hence the quadrilaterals $ABCD,\ A_0B_0C_0D_0$ are both cyclic and generally not similar. Since (X) is the common P-Apollonius circle of the triangles $\triangle APB,\ \triangle CPD$ and the common Q-Apollonius circle of the triangles $\triangle A_0QB_0,\ \triangle C_0QD_0$, WE HAVE $\angle BPC = \angle PAB + \angle PDC$ and $\angle D_0QA_0 = \angle QB_0A_0 + \angle QC_0D_0.$

Invert the cyclic quadrilateral ABCD with a circumcircle (O) and the circles (K), (L), (X) in a circle (P) centered at the point P and with radius PX. The pencil of circles (K), (L), (X) is carried into a pencil of concurrent lines $k, l, x$, such that the line x bisects the angle formed by the lines $k, l$ (inversion preserves angles). The quadrilateral vertices A, B, C, D are inverted into the intersections A', B', C', D' of the lines $k, l$ with the inverted circumcircle (O'). Since the circle (X) is congruent to the inversion circle (P), the line x is the perpendicular bisector of the segment PX. By the basic properties of inversion, the triangle pairs $\triangle B'PA' \sim \triangle APB,$ $\triangle D'PC' \sim \triangle CPD,$ $\triangle C'PB' \sim \triangle BPC,$ $\triangle A'PD' \sim \triangle DPA$ are similar. Hence, $\angle PB'A' = \angle PAB,$ $\angle PC'D' = \angle PDC,$ $\angle C'PB' \equiv \angle BPC$, and from the equality $\angle PAB + \angle PCD = \angle BPC$, it follows that the lines A'B', C'D' form an angle

$\angle (A'B', C'D') = \angle A'B'P + \angle PB'C' + \angle B'C'P + \angle P'C'D' =$

$= \angle PAB + \angle PDC + (180^\circ - \angle CPB) = 180^\circ$

which means that these lines $A'B' \parallel C'D'$ are parallel. Thus A'B'C'D' is a cyclic trapezoid, isosceles, and B'C' = A'D'. Consequently, and the line x bisecting the angle formed by its diagonals $k \equiv A'C',\ l \equiv B'D'$ is also the perpendicular bisector of the sides A'B', C'D', so that the triangles $\triangle C'PB' \cong \triangle D'XA'$ are congruent. As a result, the triangles $\triangle BPC \sim \triangle D'XA'$ are similar. But the pedal triangle $\triangle EFG$ of the triangle $\triangle AXD$ with respect to the point P is similar to the image $\triangle D'XA'$ of this triangle in the inversion in the circle (P), so that the triangles $\triangle BPC \sim \triangle EFG$ are similar as well.
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Nice, Yetti. I think my solution is a bit shorter, but I'm not sure whether it's actually correct :)

Invert $ABCD$ with respect to $P$ (with factor $r^2$). It is easy to see that $A'B'C'D'$ is a trapezoid (using the condition given in the problem). It must also be cyclic since $ABCD$ is cyclic itself (I think? :|), so it must be an isosceles trapezoid and $A'C' = B'D'$. Now, since $A'C' = r^2 \cdot \frac{AC}{AP \cdot CP}$ and $B'D' = r^2 \cdot \frac{BD}{BP \cdot DP}$, we get that $\frac{AP \cdot CP}{BP \cdot DP} = \frac{AC}{BD}$. And that is, of course, what we wanted to show. Indeed, $\angle EFG = \angle EFP + \angle PFG = \angle BAP + \angle CDP = \angle BPC$ and $\frac{EF}{FG} = \frac{AP \sin \angle BAD}{DP \sin \angle ADC} = \frac{AP \cdot BD}{DP \cdot AC} = \frac{BP}{CP}.$ So we're done. $\blacksquare$

It is correct?
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Centy
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Both of you seem to have nice solutions to this question by inversion.

(Arne: Inversion preserves angles. If your cyclic quad is inverted, it either stays cyclic or the four points turn collinear.)

But there was a non-inversion solution that no one in the UK squad could find:

Reveal Solution

And we're done. :lol:
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Centy wrote:
(Arne: Inversion preserves angles. If your cyclic quad is inverted, it either stays cyclic or the four points turn collinear.)

Indeed, pretty embarrassing :blush:
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Centy wrote:
The key is to draw a line from $P$ which cuts $BC$ at $T$ such that $\angle BPT = \angle BAP$. Now $\angle CPT = \angle CDP$ and by the converse of the Alternate Segment Theorem, $PT$ is the common tangent of the circles through $PAB$ and $PCD$. By the Radical Axis Theorem on these two circumcicles and the circle through $ABC$, $AB$, $CD$ and $PT$ meet at a point $Q$.

I drew that line... (I drew it like 100 times, in fact :D) but I didn't manage to complete the proof. In fact, I tried considering the second intersection of the circumcircles of $ABP$ and $CDP$ as well, but that didn't really work - probably because there is no second intersection :( Anyways, the idea of that construction is not thát unnatural...
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Virgil Nicula
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Very nice problem, but it isn't hardly ! Must you have a little idea. Here is a proof without inversion.
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ooiler
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have seen these two geometry problem in the journal in ky country
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bilarev
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This beautiful problem is like G4 from IMO2003 shortlist!
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Virgil Nicula
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Indication. Given are a fixed line $d$ and two fixed points $A$, $B$ so that $[AB]\cap d =\emptyset$ and $AB\not\parallel d$. Construct the points $L_1\in d$, $L_2\in d$ for which the circumcircles of the triangles $ABL_1$, $ABL_2$ are tangent to the line $d$. Then the point $L$ for which $m(\widehat {ALB})$ is maximum belongs to the set $\{L_1,L_2\}$.
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Arne
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bilarev wrote:
This beautiful problem is like G4 from IMO2003 shortlist!

Indeed, I noticed the similarities too :)
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