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k a March Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
jlacosta   0
Mar 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
Concentric Circles
MithsApprentice   59
N 16 minutes ago by golden_star_123
Source: USAMO 1998
Let ${\cal C}_1$ and ${\cal C}_2$ be concentric circles, with ${\cal C}_2$ in the interior of ${\cal C}_1$. From a point $A$ on ${\cal C}_1$ one draws the tangent $AB$ to ${\cal C}_2$ ($B\in {\cal C}_2$). Let $C$ be the second point of intersection of $AB$ and ${\cal C}_1$, and let $D$ be the midpoint of $AB$. A line passing through $A$ intersects ${\cal C}_2$ at $E$ and $F$ in such a way that the perpendicular bisectors of $DE$ and $CF$ intersect at a point $M$ on $AB$. Find, with proof, the ratio $AM/MC$.
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MithsApprentice
Oct 9, 2005
golden_star_123
16 minutes ago
CMJ 1284 (Crazy Concyclic Circumcenter Circus)
kgator   1
N 27 minutes ago by ohiorizzler1434
Source: College Mathematics Journal Volume 55 (2024), Issue 4: https://doi.org/10.1080/07468342.2024.2373015
1284. Proposed by Tran Quang Hung, High School for Gifted Students, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam. Let quadrilateral $ABCD$ not be a trapezoid such that there is a circle centered at $I$ that is tangent to the four sides $\overline{AB}$, $\overline{BC}$, $\overline{CD}$, and $\overline{DA}$. Let $X$, $Y$, $Z$, and $W$ be the circumcenters of the triangles $IAB$, $IBC$, $ICD$, and $IDA$, respectively. Prove that there is a circle containing the circumcenters of the triangles $XAB$, $YBC$, $ZCD$, and $WDA$.
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kgator
Yesterday at 3:42 AM
ohiorizzler1434
27 minutes ago
Number of sequences satisfying recurrence
ChrisG18   1
N 33 minutes ago by raghu7
Find the number of distinct positive integer sequences satisfying $ x_1 = 1$ and $$x_{n+1} = \frac{(x_{n}^2 + x_{n} +1)^{2025}}{x_{n-1}}$$for all $n > 1$
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ChrisG18
5 hours ago
raghu7
33 minutes ago
Gangster's paradise
GreekIdiot   1
N an hour ago by ohiorizzler1434
Source: older isl
Ten gangsters are standing in a field. The distance between each pair of gangsters is different. When the clock strikes, each gangster shoots the nearest gangster dead. What is the largest number of gangsters that can survive?
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GreekIdiot
Yesterday at 1:32 PM
ohiorizzler1434
an hour ago
Inspired by JK1603JK
sqing   1
N an hour ago by sqing
Source: Own
Let $ a,b  $ be real numbers such that $ a\neq 0.$ Prove that$$   \left( 12a b-a^2- b^2\right) \left(\frac{6}{a^2+b^2}+\frac{1}{a^2}  \right)  \le 42$$$$\left(16 a b-a^2- b^2\right) \left(\frac{8}{a^2+b^2}+\frac{1}{a^2}  \right)  \le 72$$$$ \left( 11a b-a^2- b^2\right) \left(\frac{11}{a^2+b^2}+\frac{2}{a^2}  \right)  \le  \frac{143}{2}$$
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sqing
an hour ago
sqing
an hour ago
An inequality about real numbers
JK1603JK   2
N 2 hours ago by Quantum-Phantom
Source: unknown
Let a,b,c be real numbers with (a^2+b^2)(b^2+c^2)(c^2+a^2)>0. Prove that \left(6ab+6bc+6ca-a^2-b^2-c^2\right)\cdot\left(\frac{1}{a^2+b^2}+\frac{1}{b^2+c^2}+\frac{1}{c^2+a^2}\right)\le \frac{45}{2}
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JK1603JK
3 hours ago
Quantum-Phantom
2 hours ago
Something nice
KhuongTrang   20
N 3 hours ago by KhuongTrang
Source: own
Problem. Given $a,b,c$ be non-negative real numbers such that $ab+bc+ca=1.$ Prove that

$$\sqrt{a+1}+\sqrt{b+1}+\sqrt{c+1}\le 1+2\sqrt{a+b+c+abc}.$$
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KhuongTrang
Nov 1, 2023
KhuongTrang
3 hours ago
Integration Bee Kaizo
Calcul8er   48
N 3 hours ago by Calcul8er
Hey integration fans. I decided to collate some of my favourite and most evil integrals I've written into one big integration bee problem set. I've been entering integration bees since 2017 and I've been really getting hands on with the writing side of things over the last couple of years. I hope you'll enjoy!
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Calcul8er
Mar 2, 2025
Calcul8er
3 hours ago
Yet another OH-symmetry
Tintarn   6
N 3 hours ago by drmzjoseph
Source: All-Russian MO 2024 11.6
Let $ABC$ be an acute non-isosceles triangle with circumcircle $\omega$, circumcenter $O$ and orthocenter $H$. We draw a line perpendicular to $AH$ through $O$ and a line perpendicular to $AO$ through $H$. Prove that the points of intersection of these lines with sides $AB$ and $AC$ lie on a circle, which is tangent to $\omega$.
Proposed by A. Kuznetsov
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Tintarn
Apr 22, 2024
drmzjoseph
3 hours ago
prove that a chord is tangent to the incircle
ihategeo_1969   2
N 3 hours ago by cursed_tangent1434
Source: SORY 2019 P6
Let $ABC$ be a triangle with incenter $I$ and intouch triangle $DEF$. Let $P$ be the foot of the perpendicular from $D$ onto $EF$. Assume that $BP$, $CP$ intersect the sides $AC$, $AB$ in $Y,Z$ respectively. Finally, let the rays $IP$, $YZ$ meet the circumcircle of $\triangle ABC$ in $R$, $X$ respectively. Prove that the tangent from $X$ to the incircle and the line $RD$ meet on the circumcircle of $\triangle ABC$.

Proposed by Aditya Khurmi
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ihategeo_1969
Yesterday at 9:01 PM
cursed_tangent1434
3 hours ago
Interesting topology
FFA21   0
4 hours ago
Source: Saint-Petersburg olympiad in topology 2017
a) Consider a square $[0, n]^2$ in the plane, for natural $n$. Erase all the points which have both coordinates non-integer. We are left with one-dimensional cell complex which we will call $X$. Find the maximal $k= k(n)$ such that
for any continuous map of $X$ to $R^1$ there is a point with at least $k$ preimages.
b) The same for maps to $R^2$ of the
two-dimensional complex obtained from $[0, n]^3\subset R^3$ by erasing all the points with all coordinates non-integer.
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FFA21
4 hours ago
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"A perfect AIME problem"
XAN4   1
N 4 hours ago by maromex
Source: own
Here is a compilcated problem of calculation. I'd really like to know how you solve it.
Find the minimum $n\in\mathbb Z^+$ such that there exists exactly $n$ different functions $f$ such that $f:[1,5]\rightarrow[1,5]$ satisfying $f^n(x)\geq x$.
1 reply
XAN4
Yesterday at 1:05 PM
maromex
4 hours ago
Ahlfors 3.3.1.2
centslordm   2
N Yesterday at 9:52 PM by Safal
If \[T_1 z = \frac{z + 2}{z + 3}, \qquad T_2 z = \frac z{z + 1},\]find $T_1 T_2z, \,T_2 T_1z$ and ${T_1}^{-1} T_2 z.$
2 replies
centslordm
Jan 8, 2025
Safal
Yesterday at 9:52 PM
Ahlfors 1.2.2.1
centslordm   3
N Yesterday at 9:40 PM by rchokler
Express $\cos 3\varphi,\,\cos4\varphi,$ and $\sin5\varphi$ in terms of $\cos \varphi$ and $\sin \varphi.$
3 replies
centslordm
Jan 15, 2025
rchokler
Yesterday at 9:40 PM
Initial Value Problem
TheFlamingoHacker   2
N Saturday at 3:30 PM by Mathzeus1024
Set up the IVP that will give the velocity of a $60$ kg sky diver that jumps out of a plane with no initial velocity and an air resistance of $0.8|v|$. For this example assume that the positive direction is downward.
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TheFlamingoHacker
Mar 5, 2020
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Saturday at 3:30 PM
Initial Value Problem
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Can anyone supply a solution?

Taking $m=60$ kg; $g=9.8$ m/s^2, we obtain the IVP: $\textcolor{red}{mv'(t) = mg - 0.8|v(t)|; v(0)=0}$.
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