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k a May Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
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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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Summer camps are starting next month at the Virtual Campus in math and language arts that are 2 - to 4 - weeks in duration. Spaces are still available - don’t miss your chance to have an enriching summer experience. There are middle and high school competition math camps as well as Math Beasts camps that review key topics coupled with fun explorations covering areas such as graph theory (Math Beasts Camp 6), cryptography (Math Beasts Camp 7-8), and topology (Math Beasts Camp 8-9)!
Be sure to mark your calendars for the following upcoming events:
[list][*]May 9th, 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET, Casework 2: Overwhelming Evidence — A Text Adventure, a game where participants will work together to navigate the map, solve puzzles, and win! All are welcome.
[*]May 19th, 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET, What's Next After Beast Academy?, designed for students finishing Beast Academy and ready for Prealgebra 1.
[*]May 20th, 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Mathcamp 2025 Qualifying Quiz Part 1 Math Jam, Problems 1 to 4, join the Canada/USA Mathcamp staff for this exciting Math Jam, where they discuss solutions to Problems 1 to 4 of the 2025 Mathcamp Qualifying Quiz!
[*]May 21st, 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Mathcamp 2025 Qualifying Quiz Part 2 Math Jam, Problems 5 and 6, Canada/USA Mathcamp staff will discuss solutions to Problems 5 and 6 of the 2025 Mathcamp Qualifying Quiz![/list]
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k i Adding contests to the Contest Collections
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Apr 5, 2023
by v_Enhance
Want to help AoPS remain a valuable Olympiad resource? Help us add contests to AoPS's Contest Collections.
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k i Zero tolerance
ZetaX 49
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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]
[/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
, do not answer with "
is a solution" only. Either you post any kind of proof or at least something unexpected (like "
is the smallest solution). Someone that does not see that
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.
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]

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




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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Sequences problem
BBNoDollar 3
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an hour ago
by BBNoDollar
Source: Mathematical Gazette Contest
Determine the general term of the sequence of non-zero natural numbers (a_n)n≥1, with the property that gcd(a_m, a_n, a_p) = gcd(m^2 ,n^2 ,p^2), for any distinct non-zero natural numbers m, n, p.
Note that gcd(a,b,c) denotes the greatest common divisor of the natural numbers a,b,c .
Note that gcd(a,b,c) denotes the greatest common divisor of the natural numbers a,b,c .
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Arbitrary point on BC and its relation with orthocenter
falantrng 33
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an hour ago
by Thapakazi
Source: Balkan MO 2025 P2
In an acute-angled triangle
,
be the orthocenter of it and
be any point on the side
. The points
are on the segments
, respectively, such that the points
and
are cyclic. The segments
and
intersect at
is a point on
such that
is tangent to the circumcircle of triangle
at
and
intersect at
. Prove that the points
and
lie on the same line.
Proposed by Theoklitos Parayiou, Cyprus





















Proposed by Theoklitos Parayiou, Cyprus
33 replies
Inequality
lgx57 4
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an hour ago
by GeoMorocco
Source: Own


(I don't know whether the equality holds)
4 replies

Rubber bands
v_Enhance 5
N
an hour ago
by lpieleanu
Source: OTIS Mock AIME 2024 #12
Let
denote a triangular grid of side length
consisting of
pegs. Charles the Otter wishes to place some rubber bands along the pegs of
such that every edge of the grid is covered by exactly one rubber band (and no rubber band traverses an edge twice). He considers two placements to be different if the sets of edges covered by the rubber bands are different or if any rubber band traverses its edges in a different order. The ordering of which bands are over and under does not matter.
For example, Charles finds there are exactly
different ways to cover
using exactly two rubber bands; the full list is shown below, with one rubber band in orange and the other in blue.
IMAGE
Let
denote the total number of ways to cover
with any number of rubber bands. Compute the remainder when
is divided by
.
Ethan Lee




For example, Charles finds there are exactly


IMAGE
Let




Ethan Lee
5 replies
Geometry with orthocenter config
thdnder 6
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2 hours ago
by ohhh
Source: Own
Let
be a triangle, and let
be its altitudes. Let
be its orthocenter, and let
and
be the circumcenters of triangles
and
. Let
be the second intersection of the circumcircles of triangles
and
. Prove that the lines
,
, and
-median of
are concurrent.














6 replies
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Strange Inequality
anantmudgal09 40
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2 hours ago
by starchan
Source: INMO 2020 P4
Let
be an integer and let
be
real numbers such that
. Prove that
Proposed by Kapil Pause





Proposed by Kapil Pause
40 replies
Finding Solutions
MathStudent2002 22
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2 hours ago
by ihategeo_1969
Source: Shortlist 2016, Number Theory 5
Let
be a positive integer which is not a perfect square, and consider the equation
Let
be the set of positive integers
for which the equation admits a solution in
with
, and let
be the set of positive integers for which the equation admits a solution in
with
. Show that
.

![\[k = \frac{x^2-a}{x^2-y^2}.\]](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/c/2/2/c223ccbc272d07c19632c5b8883571023e47a395.png)








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USAMO 2000 Problem 3
MithsApprentice 10
N
2 hours ago
by HamstPan38825
A game of solitaire is played with
red cards,
white cards, and
blue cards. A player plays all the cards one at a time. With each play he accumulates a penalty. If he plays a blue card, then he is charged a penalty which is the number of white cards still in his hand. If he plays a white card, then he is charged a penalty which is twice the number of red cards still in his hand. If he plays a red card, then he is charged a penalty which is three times the number of blue cards still in his hand. Find, as a function of
and
the minimal total penalty a player can amass and all the ways in which this minimum can be achieved.





10 replies
Hard limits
Snoop76 7
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2 hours ago
by MihaiT












7 replies
Additive combinatorics (re Cauchy-Davenport)
mavropnevma 3
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2 hours ago
by Orzify
Source: Romania TST 3 2010, Problem 4
Let
and
be two finite subsets of the half-open interval
such that
and
for no
and no
. Prove that the set
has at least
elements.
***









***
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Ducks can play games now apparently
MortemEtInteritum 34
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3 hours ago
by HamstPan38825
Source: USA TST(ST) 2020 #1
Let
,
,
be fixed positive integers. There are
ducks sitting in a
circle, one behind the other. Each duck picks either rock, paper, or scissors, with
ducks
picking rock,
ducks picking paper, and
ducks picking scissors.
A move consists of an operation of one of the following three forms:
[list]
[*] If a duck picking rock sits behind a duck picking scissors, they switch places.
[*] If a duck picking paper sits behind a duck picking rock, they switch places.
[*] If a duck picking scissors sits behind a duck picking paper, they switch places.
[/list]
Determine, in terms of
,
, and
, the maximum number of moves which could take
place, over all possible initial configurations.




circle, one behind the other. Each duck picks either rock, paper, or scissors, with

picking rock,


A move consists of an operation of one of the following three forms:
[list]
[*] If a duck picking rock sits behind a duck picking scissors, they switch places.
[*] If a duck picking paper sits behind a duck picking rock, they switch places.
[*] If a duck picking scissors sits behind a duck picking paper, they switch places.
[/list]
Determine, in terms of



place, over all possible initial configurations.
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Floor sequence
va2010 87
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3 hours ago
by Mathgloggers
Source: 2015 ISL N1
Determine all positive integers
such that the sequence
defined by
contains at least one integer term.


![\[ a_0 = M + \frac{1}{2} \qquad \textrm{and} \qquad a_{k+1} = a_k\lfloor a_k \rfloor \quad \textrm{for} \, k = 0, 1, 2, \cdots \]](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/2/1/b/21b2a1f93b11a94b84e7b55f4b4f679aa20e36c6.png)
87 replies
INMO 2019 P3
div5252 45
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3 hours ago
by anudeep
Let
be distinct positive integers. Prove that
Further, determine when equality holds.


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My unsolved problem
ZeltaQN2008 1
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3 hours ago
by Adywastaken
Source: Belarus 2017
Find all funcition
such that for all any
:



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ND_ wrote:
When is equality achieved? a=b=c doesn't satisfy the initial condition. I think minimum is 10.
with equality occurring when

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I used Cauchy and got
so i think 10 is the min, and I dont think 9 is achievable.

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Y by xytunghoanh, PikaPika999
xytunghoanh wrote:
Cobedangiu wrote:
problem

cmath?
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I can help you to solve this. Check pm for Vietnamese solution.
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xytunghoanh wrote:
I can help you to solve this. Check pm for Vietnamese solution.
This post has been edited 1 time. Last edited by Cobedangiu, Mar 27, 2025, 5:27 PM
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Cobedangiu wrote:
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Y by Maximilian113, PikaPika999
k this is SUPER hard
why is inequality not satisfied by a=b=c?
suggests something funny like calculus
edit: ok im back with a fake solve!!!!!!!
Solve:
Expand
to get
into which we now substitute
.
this now gives us
which taking the double derivative gives that this function is convex.
so we can apply Karamata (smoothing kind of) to give us that equality case is where two of
are equal and consequently two of
equal.
note that scaling doesn't change anything in the inequality so you homogenize by setting idk
and then going back into the condition
we should get
must be the minimum and consequently the minimum value is achieved at 10????????????
why is inequality not satisfied by a=b=c?
suggests something funny like calculus
edit: ok im back with a fake solve!!!!!!!
Solve:
Expand



this now gives us

so we can apply Karamata (smoothing kind of) to give us that equality case is where two of


note that scaling doesn't change anything in the inequality so you homogenize by setting idk


we should get

This post has been edited 1 time. Last edited by InftyByond, Apr 6, 2025, 5:34 AM
Reason: fake proof issues die hard
Reason: fake proof issues die hard
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Y by PikaPika999
InftyByond wrote:
k this is SUPER hard
why is inequality not satisfied by a=b=c?
suggests something funny like calculus
edit: ok im back with a fake solve!!!!!!!
Solve:
Expand
to get
into which we now substitute
.
this now gives us
which taking the double derivative gives that this function is convex.
so we can apply Karamata (smoothing kind of) to give us that equality case is where two of
are equal and consequently two of
equal.
note that scaling doesn't change anything in the inequality so you homogenize by setting idk
and then going back into the condition
we should get
must be the minimum and consequently the minimum value is achieved at 10????????????
why is inequality not satisfied by a=b=c?
suggests something funny like calculus
edit: ok im back with a fake solve!!!!!!!
Solve:
Expand



this now gives us

so we can apply Karamata (smoothing kind of) to give us that equality case is where two of


note that scaling doesn't change anything in the inequality so you homogenize by setting idk


we should get

The problem has been solved


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Y by PikaPika999, anduran, truongphatt2668
Cobedangiu wrote:
problem

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Y by PikaPika999
Cobedangiu wrote:
InftyByond wrote:
k this is SUPER hard
why is inequality not satisfied by a=b=c?
suggests something funny like calculus
edit: ok im back with a fake solve!!!!!!!
Solve:
Expand
to get
into which we now substitute
.
this now gives us
which taking the double derivative gives that this function is convex.
so we can apply Karamata (smoothing kind of) to give us that equality case is where two of
are equal and consequently two of
equal.
note that scaling doesn't change anything in the inequality so you homogenize by setting idk
and then going back into the condition
we should get
must be the minimum and consequently the minimum value is achieved at 10????????????
why is inequality not satisfied by a=b=c?
suggests something funny like calculus
edit: ok im back with a fake solve!!!!!!!
Solve:
Expand



this now gives us

so we can apply Karamata (smoothing kind of) to give us that equality case is where two of


note that scaling doesn't change anything in the inequality so you homogenize by setting idk


we should get

The problem has been solved


K so i looked at the solve
Its pretty nice and slick with no calculus
Is my alternate solve wrong then? not surprised
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See this https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c6h1834400p23632179 for more information
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