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| − | For multiplication in latex, use \cdot instead of *. Nice work you've been doing. --[[User:JBL|JBL]] 19:38, 12 February 2007 (EST)
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| | + | I am testing a short greasemonkey script to (semi-)automatically format contest articles, under the hope that this can make the articles here consistent and easily accessible. Apologies for the flood of edits; comments and suggestions are greatly welcomed. <font style="font-family:Georgia,sans-serif">[[User:Azjps|azjps]] ([[User talk:Azjps|<font color="green">talk</font>]])</font> 05:33, 26 February 2010 (UTC) |
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| − | Nope, it's me -- I counted the case where all three are divisible by 125 4 times instead of 1. I'm fixing now.--[[User:JBL|JBL]] 20:19, 15 February 2007 (EST)
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| − | Don't bother using a delete template, just delete it unless you think it'd be controversial. It's not like it can't be undone if we want.--[[User:Solafidefarms|solafidefarms]] 14:51, 8 March 2007 (EST)
| + | Hi Azjps, thanks for the cones! Two (hopefully minor) requests: right now, both cones seem really large. It is possible to make them smaller or put them in a box to the side or something? Also, in the oblique cone, the segment labeled <math>r</math> shouldn't be, but it might be nice to include an actual radius of the circle in the picture, too. |
| | + | Thanks! --[[User:JBL|JBL]] 23:21, 2 March 2010 (UTC) |
| | + | : Wonderful, looks beautiful, thanks! --[[User:JBL|JBL]] 23:58, 2 March 2010 (UTC) |
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| − | :Delete as in blank? Only sysops have deletion powers. (I guess I'm too into organization) [[User:Azjps|Azjps]] ([[User talk:Azjps|<font color="green">talk</font>]]) 15:35, 8 March 2007 (EST)
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| − | Hi, the boxes are very nice. However, it really is excessive to have a category for each contest, don't you think? If you want a problem from the AIME for a certain year, you go to the page 1984 AIME Problems/Problem 2 or something—it's already pretty well organized that way. The category "Math Contest Problems" gets you to any contest's directory of problems on the wiki. If you want problems from a certain subject area, you use categories like Olympiad Geometry Problems, Intermediate Number Theory Problems, Introductory Algebra Problems. —[[User:Boy Soprano II|Boy Soprano II]] 14:30, 3 April 2007 (EDT) | + | Hi Azjps, you've been doing a lot of nice work. I have one minor recurring complaint: you begin a lot of articles with a phrase like, "An invariant refers to ...." This doesn't make sense. There are (at least) two possible alternatives: one is, "The term invariant refers to ..." and the other is, "An invariant is ...." I personally prefer the latter, as it's substantially more direct. Anyhow, this is obviously not a huge deal, but I just thought I'd mention it. --[[User:JBL|JBL]] 23:38, 2 March 2010 (UTC) |
| | + | :Thanks for the comment, I will remember to do so. Also, not sure what I was thinking with that "r" label, haha. <font style="font-family:Georgia,sans-serif">[[User:Azjps|azjps]] ([[User talk:Azjps|<font color="green">talk</font>]])</font> 23:52, 2 March 2010 (UTC) |
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| − | Hmmm... I can't view the source for that page. Why is it messed up?
| + | == Help == |
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| − | == Creating redirects ==
| + | I've been on this website many times before and need help with some maths questions. I wasn't sure who to ask for help, so I just chose an admin. |
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| − | When you create a redirect from a blank article (e.g. [[internally tangent]]) to an article to which it is vaguely related (e.g. [[tangent line]]), you actually do a disservice: anyone who comes across the link to "internally tangent" won't realize that there actually is no article there, and anyone who clicks on the link will be sent to a place they don't really want to be. If you aren't going to write a stub, just leave it empty. --[[User:JBL|JBL]] 18:22, 28 April 2007 (EDT)
| + | Well here are two problems I need help with: |
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| − | :Good point, though I guess its not as bad as calling a [[dodecahedron]] a 12-sided polygon. (I’ll stick to the [[USAMO]] as my excuse). I was thinking more of redirecting the variations of tangent to a page like [[tangent (geometry)]], and when I saw the [[tangent]] disambiguation page I figured I would redirect it to [[tangent line]] and someday move that article to [[tangent (geometry)]]. By the way, is there anything better we can put for [[contradiction]] outside of [[proof by contradiction]]? <font style="font-family:Georgia,sans-serif">[[User:Azjps|Azjps]] ([[User talk:Azjps|<font color="green">talk</font>]])</font> 15:15, 1 May 2007 (EDT)
| + | 1. Given five distinct points A, B, C, P, Q in the plane, no three are collinear. Prove that |
| | + | AB + BC + CA + PQ < AP + AQ + BP + BQ + CP + CQ. |
| | + | 2. (p, q) is the gcd of p and q. Find all positive integers x, y, z such that |
| | + | x+y = (x, y)^2 |
| | + | y+z = (y, z)^2 |
| | + | z+x = (z, x)^2 |
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| − | == Template ==
| + | Thanks! Can you tell me a bit about how the wiki works? I'm not really sure and it's so big I don't really know what to do. |
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| − | You copied it from wikipedia? Meh, still pretty nice find. But I thought we were not allowed to copy from GNU sites, as AoPS doesn't agree to that license. Unless it's from MediaWiki originally? [[User:Temperal|Temperal]] 20:43, 17 September 2007 (EDT)
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| − | :Okay, that's all settled then. About the talk page: That's rather strange. What browser? [[User:Temperal|Temperal]] 16:21, 18 September 2007 (EDT)
| + | I was using my user page to test character capacity, and apparently I typed in too much characters, because now it says that the page cannot be found. |
| | + | [http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/User:Bobthesmartypants] |
| | + | Thanks if you fix it. |
| | + | ~bob |
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| − | == AIME resources ==
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| − | Uh, I sort of lost the link to the AoPS AIME resources not on the Wiki. Could you tell me what it is? [[User:Temperal|Temperal]]<span style="color:red"><small><sup>[[User Talk:Temperal|xy]]</sup></small></span> 21:46, 7 October 2007 (EDT)
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| − | :See my comments on the talk page. [[User:Temperal|Temperal]]<span style="color:red"><small><sup>[[User Talk:Temperal|xy]]</sup></small></span> 19:02, 12 October 2007 (EDT)
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| − | == Page 10 of PSR ==
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| − | Could you work on that for me? I don't know much about integrals other than some basic rules and the Residue Theorem. Thanks! [[User:Temperal|Temperal]]<span style="color:red"><small><sup>[[User Talk:Temperal|xy]]</sup></small></span> 11:47, 13 October 2007 (EDT)
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| − | :Actually, never mind. I found a textbook that I'll use as a reference. Thanks anyways! [[User:Temperal|Temperal]]<span style="color:red"><small><sup>[[User Talk:Temperal|xy]]</sup></small></span> 16:15, 13 October 2007 (EDT)
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| − | == WikiProject Mathematics Competitions ==
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| − | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mathematics_Competitions]
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| − | I created this WikiProject, and I thought members of AoPS would be interested. Plus, you know a lot about the mechanics of wikis, so I thought I'd ask you to join. [[User:Temperal|Temperal]]<span style="color:red"><small><sup>[[User Talk:Temperal|xy]]</sup></small></span> 15:15, 20 October 2007 (EDT)
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| − | == Sysopped ==
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| − | Just thought to notify you, you've been sysopped. [[User:Temperal|Temperal]]<span style="color:red"><small><sup>[[User Talk:Temperal|xy]]</sup></small></span> 16:43, 23 November 2007 (EST)
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| − | :Might be a silly question, but are you [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AndyZ this user]? [[User:Temperal|Temperal]]<span style="color:red"><small><sup>[[User Talk:Temperal|xy]]</sup></small></span> 22:23, 24 November 2007 (EST)
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| − | ::I thought so; a random sysop joining the WP didn't seem very likely to me. By the way, nice [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/AndyZ RfA]. First 0 oppose and 0 neutral I've seen... [[User:Temperal|Temperal]]<span style="color:red"><small><sup>[[User Talk:Temperal|xy]]</sup></small></span> 18:30, 26 November 2007 (EST)
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| − | == Re:Complex number category ==
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| − | Well, if we could get that specific, we would have such obscure categories like Intermediate Group Theory Problems, Olympiad Graph Theory Problems, etc.
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| − | Everything would get quite cluttered. I think it's best to keep to the basic cover-all categories. [[User:Temperal|Temperal]]<span style="color:red"><small><sup>[[User Talk:Temperal|xy]]</sup></small></span> 15:49, 1 December 2007 (EST)
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| − | I was going through that particular AMC 10 (I had done it for practice and was checking my answers), when I noticed I was somehow on an AMC 12 page. I was pretty confused, and it took almost ten minutes for me to figure out what had happened. If you can post a notice on the page explaining it for users who may be confused by the mixup, then I'll agree with you. [[User:Temperal|Temperal]]<span style="color:red"><small><sup>[[User Talk:Temperal|xy]]</sup></small></span> 21:10, 1 December 2007 (EST)
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| − | == Chess tournament started ==
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| − | Your game is right here: http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=177812
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| − | I thought I would notify you here since you're much more active on the Wiki than the forums.
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| − | I don't really have time to notify all 50-something participants of the tournament, so could you notify your teammates? [[User:Temperal|Temperal]]<span style="color:red"><small><sup>[[User Talk:Temperal|xy]]</sup></small></span> 12:28, 8 December 2007 (EST)
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| − | :I have done so, thanks for the notification. <font style="font-family:Georgia,sans-serif">[[User:Azjps|Azjps]] ([[User talk:Azjps|<font color="green">talk</font>]])</font> 17:01, 10 December 2007 (EST)
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| − | == AotD ==
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| − | You have every right to choose new AotDs. If I forget or something, you can just choose one for me. You have more experience in that respect anyhow. [[User:Temperal|Temperal]]<span style="color:red"><small><sup>[[User Talk:Temperal|xy]]</sup></small></span> 21:11, 10 December 2007 (EST)
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| − | I suggested the idea of a second page day (but this time to get higher quality articles, not more articles; I had to put AotD temporarily on hiatus because there weren't any sufficiently comprehensive articles for it) to Mr. Rusczyk, and he agreed. Do you have any suggestions for the page day? I can't think of anyhting except to post to expand articles, not create them, and provide an example of an excellent article. (I think [[set]] would do nicely for the example.) [[User:Temperal|Temperal]]<span style="color:red"><small><sup>[[User Talk:Temperal|xy]]</sup></small></span> 20:29, 11 January 2008 (EST)
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| − | == LaTeX suggestion for large equations ==
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| − | Is the align* environment active on the wiki? Let's see:
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| − | This is much nicer than breaking equations into several pieces. --[[User:JBL|JBL]] 21:37, 16 January 2008 (EST)
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| − | Right, but it looks much nicer if you break it up internally using align instead of breaking the latex into several pieces, e.g.
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| − | <math>\begin{align*} [AEDF] & = [AE'F] + [AED] + [AE'D] \\
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| − | & = 100 + 50\sqrt{3} + 500\sqrt{2} - 350\sqrt{3} + 300\sqrt{6} - 600 \\
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| − | & = 500\sqrt{2} - 350\sqrt{3} + 300\sqrt{6} - 600\end{align*}.</math>
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| − | --[[User:JBL|JBL]] 20:43, 17 January 2008 (EST)
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| − | == Templates ==
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| − | I made two templates for problem pages: [[Template:Prob]] and [[Template:ProbAMC]]. Hopefully you can see how they work by looking at the source code. I wish parser functions were available; that would easily combine them into one template... anyways, any comments/suggestions? [[User:Temperal|Temperal]]<span style="color:red"><small><sup>[[User Talk:Temperal|xy]]</sup></small></span> 22:17, 18 January 2008 (EST)
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| − | == Regarding "See Also" Sections on Contest Problem Pages ==
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| − | As far as I know, "See Also" sections are used to direct readers to material on similar subjects. They do not seem to apply on problem pages. (In my opinion, a "See Also" section on a problem page would contain links to pages with information on the topics related to the problem. For example, a geometry problem might have the links Geometry, Triangle, etc. However, I don't think these are necessary because of the use of linked words in the solutions.) --[[User:Chess64|Chess64]] 21:05, 18 March 2008 (EDT)
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| − | Actually, we didn't have them before (way back when the wiki was first started). (See [[1970_Canadian_MO_Problems/Problem_5]] for example.) Someone just started adding them for some reason... —[[User:Chess64|Chess64]] 15:56, 19 March 2008 (EDT)
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shouldn't be, but it might be nice to include an actual radius of the circle in the picture, too.
Thanks! --JBL 23:21, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
