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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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jlacosta
May 1, 2025
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No math to big math in 42 days
observer04   2
N 5 hours ago by Ruegerbyrd
CAN IT BE DONE





usajmo
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observer04
Today at 1:08 AM
Ruegerbyrd
5 hours ago
[TEST RELEASED] OMMC Year 5
DottedCaculator   73
N 5 hours ago by Ruegerbyrd
Test portal: https://ommc-test-portal-2025.vercel.app/

Hello to all creative problem solvers,

Do you want to work on a fun, untimed team math competition with amazing questions by MOPpers and IMO & EGMO medalists? $\phantom{You lost the game.}$
Do you want to have a chance to win thousands in cash and raffle prizes (no matter your skill level)?

Check out the fifth annual iteration of the

Online Monmouth Math Competition!

Online Monmouth Math Competition, or OMMC, is a 501c3 accredited nonprofit organization managed by adults, college students, and high schoolers which aims to give talented high school and middle school students an exciting way to develop their skills in mathematics.

Our website: https://www.ommcofficial.org/
Our Discord (6000+ members): https://tinyurl.com/joinommc

This is not a local competition; any student 18 or younger anywhere in the world can attend. We have changed some elements of our contest format, so read carefully and thoroughly. Join our Discord or monitor this thread for updates and test releases.

How hard is it?

We plan to raffle out a TON of prizes over all competitors regardless of performance. So just submit: a few minutes of your time will give you a great chance to win amazing prizes!

How are the problems?

You can check out our past problems and sample problems here:
https://www.ommcofficial.org/sample
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How will the test be held?/How do I sign up?

Solo teams?

Test Policy

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Main Round: May 17th - May 24th
Test Portal Released. The Main Round of the contest is held. The Main Round consists of 25 questions that each have a numerical answer. Teams will have the entire time interval to work on the questions. They can submit any time during the interval. Teams are free to edit their submissions before the period ends, even after they submit.

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I have more questions. Whom do I ask?

We hope for your participation, and good luck!

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OMMC’S 2025 EVENTS ARE SPONSORED BY:

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DottedCaculator
Apr 26, 2025
Ruegerbyrd
5 hours ago
Essentially, how to get good at olympiad math?
gulab_jamun   1
N 5 hours ago by Konigsberg
Ok, so I'm posting this as an anynonymous user cuz I don't want to get flamed by anyone I know for my goals but I really do want to improve on my math skill.

Basically, I'm alright at computational math (10 AIME, dhr stanford math meet twice) and I hope I can get good enough at olympiad math over the summer to make MOP next year (I will be entering 10th as after next year, it becomes much harder :( )) Essentially, I just want to get good at olympiad math. If someone could, please tell me how to study, like what books (currently thinking of doing EGMO) but I don't know how to get better at the other topics. Also, how would I prepare? Like would I study both proof geometry and proof number theory concurrently or just study each topic one by one?? Would I do mock jmo/amo or js prioritize olympiad problems in each topic. I have the whole summer ahead of me, and intend to dedicate it to olympiad math, so any advice would be really appreciated. Thank you!
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gulab_jamun
Today at 1:53 AM
Konigsberg
5 hours ago
9 best high school math competitions hosted by a college/university
ethan2011   16
N 6 hours ago by aarush.rachak11
I only included college-hosted comps since MAA comps are very differently formatted, and IMO would easily beat the rest on quality since mathematicians around the world give questions, and so many problems are shortlisted, so IMO does release the IMO shortlist for people to practice. I also did not include the not as prestigious ones(like BRUMO, CUBRMC, and others), since most comps with very high quality questions are more prestigious(I did include other if you really think those questions are really good).
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ethan2011
Apr 12, 2025
aarush.rachak11
6 hours ago
Convergence of complex sequence
Rohit-2006   0
Yesterday at 7:56 PM
Suppose $z_1, z_2,\cdots,z_k$ are complex numbers with absolute value $1$. For $n=1,2,\cdots$ define $w_n=z_1^n+z_2^n+\cdots+z_k^n$. Given that the sequence $(w_n)_{n\geq1}$ converges. Show that,
$$z_1=z_2=\cdots=z_k=1$$.
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Rohit-2006
Yesterday at 7:56 PM
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Problem on distinct prime divisors of P(1),...,P(n)
IAmTheHazard   3
N Yesterday at 7:04 PM by IAmTheHazard
Find all nonnegative real numbers $\lambda$ such that there exists an integer polynomial $P$ with no integer roots and a constant $c>0$ such that
$$\prod_{i=1}^n P(i)=P(1)\cdot P(2)\cdots P(n)$$has at least $cn^{\lambda}$ distinct prime divisors for all positive integers $n$.
3 replies
IAmTheHazard
Apr 4, 2025
IAmTheHazard
Yesterday at 7:04 PM
Invertible Matrices
Mateescu Constantin   7
N Yesterday at 6:27 PM by CHOUKRI
Source: Romanian District Olympiad 2018 - Grade XI - Problem 1
Show that if $n\ge 2$ is an integer, then there exist invertible matrices $A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_n \in \mathcal{M}_2(\mathbb{R})$ with non-zero entries such that:

\[A_1^{-1} + A_2^{-1} + \ldots + A_n^{-1} = (A_1 + A_2 + \ldots + A_n)^{-1}.\]
Edit.
7 replies
Mateescu Constantin
Mar 10, 2018
CHOUKRI
Yesterday at 6:27 PM
A challenging sum
Polymethical_   2
N Yesterday at 6:19 PM by GreenKeeper
I tried to integrate series of log(1-x) / x
2 replies
Polymethical_
Yesterday at 4:09 AM
GreenKeeper
Yesterday at 6:19 PM
Analytic on C excluding countably many points
Omid Hatami   12
N Yesterday at 6:13 PM by alinazarboland
Source: IMS 2009
Let $ A\subset \mathbb C$ be a closed and countable set. Prove that if the analytic function $ f: \mathbb C\backslash A\longrightarrow \mathbb C$ is bounded, then $ f$ is constant.
12 replies
Omid Hatami
May 20, 2009
alinazarboland
Yesterday at 6:13 PM
2022 Putnam A2
giginori   20
N Yesterday at 6:06 PM by dragoon
Let $n$ be an integer with $n\geq 2.$ Over all real polynomials $p(x)$ of degree $n,$ what is the largest possible number of negative coefficients of $p(x)^2?$
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giginori
Dec 4, 2022
dragoon
Yesterday at 6:06 PM
fibonacci number theory
FFA21   1
N Yesterday at 2:53 PM by alexheinis
Source: OSSM Comp'25 P3 (HSE IMC qualification)
$F_n$ fibonacci numbers ($F_1=1, F_2=1$) find all n such that:
$\forall i\in Z$ and $0\leq i\leq F_n$
$C^i_{F_n}\equiv (-1)^i\pmod{F_n+1}$
1 reply
FFA21
May 14, 2025
alexheinis
Yesterday at 2:53 PM
Tough integral
Martin.s   3
N Friday at 9:42 PM by GreenKeeper
$$\int_0^{\pi/2}\ln(\tan(\theta/2))
\;\frac{4\cos\theta\cos(2\theta)}{4\sin^4\theta+1}\,d\theta.$$
3 replies
Martin.s
May 12, 2025
GreenKeeper
Friday at 9:42 PM
Integral
Martin.s   1
N Friday at 5:01 PM by Martin.s
$$\int_0^{\pi/6}\arcsin\Bigl(\sqrt{\cos(3\psi)\cos\psi}\Bigr)\,d\psi.$$
1 reply
Martin.s
May 14, 2025
Martin.s
Friday at 5:01 PM
integrals
FFA21   3
N Friday at 2:48 PM by Rohit-2006
Source: OSSM Comp'25 P1 (HSE IMC qualification)
Find all continuous functions $f:[1,8]\to R$ that:
$\int_1^2f(t^3)^2dt+2\int_1^2sin(t)f(t^3)dt=\frac{2}{3}\int_1^8f(t)dt-\int_1^2(t^2-sin(t))^2dt$
3 replies
FFA21
May 14, 2025
Rohit-2006
Friday at 2:48 PM
2016 Sets
NormanWho   111
N Friday at 11:59 PM by Amkan2022
Source: 2016 USAJMO 4
Find, with proof, the least integer $N$ such that if any $2016$ elements are removed from the set ${1, 2,...,N}$, one can still find $2016$ distinct numbers among the remaining elements with sum $N$.
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NormanWho
Apr 20, 2016
Amkan2022
Friday at 11:59 PM
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Find, with proof, the least integer $N$ such that if any $2016$ elements are removed from the set ${1, 2,...,N}$, one can still find $2016$ distinct numbers among the remaining elements with sum $N$.
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I got $N = 1008 \cdot 6049 = 6097392$.
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I got $6097392,$ basically match up pairs to make $6049$ and gg.

^sniped
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wu2481632
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Ugh I got this but couldn't figure out how to prove it
2 or 6?
I put down some random stuff about induction I think ugh
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nosaj wrote:
I got $N = 1008 \cdot 6049 = 6097392$.

I got the same answer
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hwl0304
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the answer is 6097392
i had kinda inductive thing base is 1-2016 are removed and casework on how the removed numbers change


hopefully 7
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wu2481632 wrote:
Ugh I got this but couldn't figure out how to prove it
2 or 6?
I put down some random stuff about induction I think ugh

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Proved this was the minimum, didn't prove it actually worked.
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mathwizard888
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jam10307 wrote:
I got $6097392,$ basically match up pairs to make $6049$ and gg.

^sniped

Yea that's what I did, pretty easy for a #4 in my opinion.
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solution is just pair up mumbers summing to 6049 and noting that 3024-2016=1008 pairs remain alve
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how many points for finding 1008(6049) and proving that anything less than that works but not showing it is achievable?
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macandcheese
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Any points for saying that 6097392 is the smallest possible value without showing it worked?
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hwl0304
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probably 0-1.
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1 point.
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I used pigeonhole to prove achievable.
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