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k i Adding contests to the Contest Collections
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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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Sep 9, 2019
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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:


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.

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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:
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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.

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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.



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HANDOUT!! On the Angle Bisector Miquel Point
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N 17 minutes ago by quantam13
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Hi! This is a handout on the Configuration of the Angle Bisector Miquel Point, which originated from a series of notes made by Om245 for a lecture conducted by him for (Unofficial) INMO Training Camp.

Many thanks to stillwater_25 (for group-solving the key problem in the second section and finding a majority of it's key claims) and Takumi Higashida (for discovering most properties in relation to $\overline{WI}$) for all their time and support. We received immense help from TestX01 for the proof of claim 2.19 and it's associated lemma.

The point(s) that the handout deals with are very rich and there are numerous properties that we discovered. There are precious few contest problems related to this configuration and it remains relatively unknown among most of the community. However, we feel there is much more to this configuration to be explored and we hope that it may be as popular as other contemporary configurations in the future.

Due to the AoPS file sharing size restrictions, we have replaced the PDF with a google drive link.

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Source: USA TSTST 2013, Problem 8
Define a function $f: \mathbb N \to \mathbb N$ by $f(1) = 1$, $f(n+1) = f(n) + 2^{f(n)}$ for every positive integer $n$. Prove that $f(1), f(2), \dots, f(3^{2013})$ leave distinct remainders when divided by $3^{2013}$.
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concyclic points
a19_d11   12
N Jun 13, 2021 by JustKeepRunning
let ABC be a triangle and M be the medium of BC. AD, BE and CF the heights. let'a take AM and be K the intersection of AM with the circle passing through AEF. H is the othocenter of ABC.
prove that BHKC is concyclic
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let ABC be a triangle and M be the medium of BC. AD, BE and CF the heights. let'a take AM and be K the intersection of AM with the circle passing through AEF. H is the othocenter of ABC.
prove that BHKC is concyclic
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I'm at a point in my solution where I need one fact but I can't prove it.

my way

Either that, or is my approach wrong?
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This is probably a silly solution, but whatever.

We start off with a lemma:

LEMMA: The circumcircles of $\triangle ABC$ and $\triangle BHC$ have the same radii.

Proof. Reflect $H$ over $BC$ to $H'$; then as $\angle BH'C=\angle BHC=\angle FHE=\pi-\angle BAC$, quadrilateral $ABH'C$ is cyclic, proving the claim. $\blacksquare$.

Extend $AM$ to intersect $(BHC)$ at a point $X$, and let $O$ be the circumcenter of $\triangle ABC$. As this circle and $(ABC)$ have the same radius, $(BHC)$ can be considered as the reflection of $(ABC)$ across the line $BC$. Reflect $X$ over $BC$ to a point $X'$; then $\angle X'MC=\angle XMC=\angle AMB$ and by the logic in the previous sentence $X'\in(ABC)$. Now we can prove $AX'CB$ is an isosceles trapezoid, which is just a lot of messy work (it's here; I can't seem to find a shorter way to do this darn), which immediately implies $ABXC$ is a parallelogram.

We can finish the problem off easily: note that due to the parallelism $HB\perp BX$ and since $(AFE)$ passes through $H$, $\angle AKH=\angle AEH=90^\circ$ as well. Hence $\angle HBX=\angle HKX=90^\circ\implies K\in(BHC)$. $\blacksquare$

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Dear Liberator and Mathlinkers,
nice proof with the Reim's theorem...
Another way:
1. P the second point of intersection of the circumcircle of ABC with the circle with diameter AH
2. it is well known? that MH is perpendicular to AP, that AP, EF and BC are concurrent
3. According to the three chords theorem, we are done...
Sincerely
Jean-Louis
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jayme wrote:
1. P the second point of intersection of the circumcircle of ABC with the circle with diameter AH
2. it is well known? that MH is perpendicular to AP, that AP, EF and BC are concurrent

Well known? Sort of...

http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=597577
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Obviously $\odot MBE, \odot MCF, \odot AEF$ meet on $AM$. Then, $\angle CHK = \angle MFK = \angle MBK$ so $K \in BHC$.
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Without loss of generality,we may assume that $\triangle ABC$ is acute.Since $\angle AKF=\angle AEF=\angle ABM$,we obtain that $B,M,K,F$ are concyclic.Note that $FM=BM$,so $\angle BKM=\angle BFM=\angle ABM$.

Similarly,$\angle CKM=\angle ACM$,and hence $\angle BKC=180^\circ-\angle BAC=\angle BHC$,then $B,C,H,K$ are concyclic,as desired.

$Q.E.D.$

For another solution,see (AEF) passes through a fixed point on A-median.
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This problem screams radical axis.

Let $G=(ABC)\cap (AEF)$, and let $G'=HM\cap (ABC)$ other than the parallelogram point. So $\angle AG'M=\tfrac{\pi}{2}$ (because the other intersection of $HM, (ABC)$ is diametrically opposite $A$) so $G'\equiv G$ is on $(AEF)$.
Note $(EFHK),(DHKM)$ are cyclic by perpendiculars. Also $(EFDM)$ is cyclic (the nine-point circle of $\triangle ABC$.) By radical axis on these three we get $KH,EF,BC$ concurrent at say $X$. Now the next part is a bit strange: Note $AD\perp BC$ and $\angle XKA =\angle HEA=\tfrac{\pi}{2}$, so $H$ is the orthocenter of $\triangle AXM$. Since $H,M,G$ are collinear and $\angle HGA=\tfrac{\pi}{2}$, then $G$ is the foot from $M$ to $AX$, so $X,G,A$ are collinear. Finally, the desired result follows from the converse of the radical axis theorem on $(ABCG), (AGKH), KHBC$.

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I don't understand. You did a bunch of obvious calculations which come to formula for midline length. And how do you use them, since then you get from similar triangles (which one?) $ AH \cdot AD = AK \cdot AM$
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This is a well-known property of the so-called HM-point, but I'll present a short proof here anyway.

It is well known that the antipode of $H$ in $(BHC)$, call it $H'$, is just the reflection of $A$ through $M$.(For a proof of this fact, go to @post #5's blog, which has a lot of good olympiad stuffs :) ) Notice that $\angle AKH=90^{\circ}$ means that $K$ is on the circle with diameter $HH',$ so we are done.
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