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k a July Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
jwelsh   0
Jul 1, 2025
We are halfway through summer, so be sure to carve out some time to keep your skills sharp and explore challenging topics at AoPS Online and our AoPS Academies (including the Virtual Campus)!

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[*]At AoPS Online, we have accelerated sections where you can complete a course in half the time by meeting twice/week instead of once/week, starting on July 8th:
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[*]MATHCOUNTS/AMC 8 Advanced
[*]AMC Problem Series[/list]
[*]Plus, AoPS Online has a special seminar July 14 - 17 that is outside the standard fare: Paradoxes and Infinity
[*]We are expanding our in-person AoPS Academy locations - are you looking for a strong community of problem solvers, exemplary instruction, and math and language arts options? Look to see if we have a location near you and enroll in summer camps or academic year classes today! New locations include campuses in California, Georgia, New York, Illinois, and Oregon and more coming soon![/list]

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jwelsh
Jul 1, 2025
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k i Suggestion Form
jwelsh   0
May 6, 2021
Hello!

Given the number of suggestions we’ve been receiving, we’re transitioning to a suggestion form. If you have a suggestion for the AoPS website, please submit the Google Form:
Suggestion Form

To keep all new suggestions together, any new suggestion threads posted will be deleted.

Please remember that if you find a bug outside of FTW! (after refreshing to make sure it’s not a glitch), make sure you’re following the How to write a bug report instructions and using the proper format to report the bug.

Please check the FTW! thread for bugs and post any new ones in the For the Win! and Other Games Support Forum.
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jwelsh
May 6, 2021
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k i Read me first / How to write a bug report
slester   3
N May 4, 2019 by LauraZed
Greetings, AoPS users!

If you're reading this post, that means you've come across some kind of bug, error, or misbehavior, which nobody likes! To help us developers solve the problem as quickly as possible, we need enough information to understand what happened. Following these guidelines will help us squash those bugs more effectively.

Before submitting a bug report, please confirm the issue exists in other browsers or other computers if you have access to them.

For a list of many common questions and issues, please see our user created FAQ, Community FAQ, or For the Win! FAQ.

What is a bug?
A bug is a misbehavior that is reproducible. If a refresh makes it go away 100% of the time, then it isn't a bug, but rather a glitch. That's when your browser has some strange file cached, or for some reason doesn't render the page like it should. Please don't report glitches, since we generally cannot fix them. A glitch that happens more than a few times, though, could be an intermittent bug.

If something is wrong in the wiki, you can change it! The AoPS Wiki is user-editable, and it may be defaced from time to time. You can revert these changes yourself, but if you notice a particular user defacing the wiki, please let an admin know.

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The subject line should explain as clearly as possible what went wrong.

Bad: Forum doesn't work
Good: Switching between threads quickly shows blank page.

The report
Use this format to report bugs. Be as specific as possible. If you don't know the answer exactly, give us as much information as you know. Attaching a screenshot is helpful if you can take one.

Summary of the problem:
Page URL:
Steps to reproduce:
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If your computer or tablet is school issued, please indicate this under Additional information.

Example
Summary of the problem: When I click back and forth between two threads in the site support section, the content of the threads no longer show up. (See attached screenshot.)
Page URL: http://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c10_site_support
Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to the Site Support forum.
2. Click on any thread.
3. Click quickly on a different thread.
Expected behavior: To see the second thread.
Frequency: Every time
Operating system: Mac OS X
Browser: Chrome and Firefox
Additional information: Only happens in the Site Support forum. My tablet is school issued, but I have the problem at both school and home.

How to take a screenshot
Mac OS X: If you type ⌘+Shift+4, you'll get a "crosshairs" that lets you take a custom screenshot size. Just click and drag to select the area you want to take a picture of. If you type ⌘+Shift+4+space, you can take a screenshot of a specific window. All screenshots will show up on your desktop.

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k i Community Safety
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Jan 18, 2018
If you find content on the AoPS Community that makes you concerned for a user's health or safety, please alert AoPS Administrators using the report button (Z) or by emailing sheriff@aops.com . You should provide a description of the content and a link in your message. If it's an emergency, call 911 or whatever the local emergency services are in your country.

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Jan 18, 2018
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IMO 2006 Slovenia - PROBLEM 4
Valentin Vornicu   90
N 3 minutes ago by Kempu33334
Determine all pairs $(x, y)$ of integers such that \[1+2^{x}+2^{2x+1}= y^{2}.\]
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Valentin Vornicu
Jul 13, 2006
Kempu33334
3 minutes ago
Functional equation extension of angelstt problems
pco   16
N 20 minutes ago by jasperE3
Source: f(xf(y))=f(x+y)
Find all functions $f: \mathbb R^+\to\mathbb R^+$ such that \[ f(xf(y))=f(x+y)\]for all positive reals $x$ and $y$.
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pco
Jan 6, 2010
jasperE3
20 minutes ago
yeah we all know that 2025=45^2
X.Allaberdiyev   9
N 21 minutes ago by DensSv
Source: JBMO 2025 Problem 2
Determine all numbers of the form
$$20252025... 2025$$(consisting of one or more consecutive blocks of $2025$) that are perfect squares of positive integers.

Proposed by Ognjen Tešić, Serbia
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X.Allaberdiyev
Jun 26, 2025
DensSv
21 minutes ago
IMO ShortList 2002, number theory problem 1
orl   82
N 24 minutes ago by Kempu33334
Source: IMO ShortList 2002, number theory problem 1
What is the smallest positive integer $t$ such that there exist integers $x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_t$ with \[x^3_1+x^3_2+\,\ldots\,+x^3_t=2002^{2002}\,?\]
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orl
Sep 28, 2004
Kempu33334
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k how do u know how much friends u have?
jkim0656   9
N Apr 13, 2025 by Sotowa
how do u know how much friends u have?
I've seen ppl talk about having like random number/1000 friends but idk how to find the number :sob:
[RESOLVED]
[realized that i need more friends]
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jkim0656
Apr 12, 2025
Sotowa
Apr 13, 2025
k friends.
WiseHawkCuteFriendly   8
N Jan 16, 2025 by shaayonsamanta
How can you see how many friends you have in aops
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WiseHawkCuteFriendly
Jan 15, 2025
shaayonsamanta
Jan 16, 2025
k hi friends!
engineer48   6
N Dec 2, 2024 by ultimate_life_form
i dunno y but my friend list kept changing the number of friends


some of my computers have different number of friends(the same account tho)
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engineer48
Dec 1, 2024
ultimate_life_form
Dec 2, 2024
k is there an way...
engineer48   11
N Nov 24, 2024 by aayr
is there a way of counting how many friends u have
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engineer48
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aayr
Nov 24, 2024
k How to know if people have hacked into your account?
theragingrotweiller   4
N Nov 19, 2024 by theragingrotweiller
Yeah so Im wondering I dont accept friend requests from people I dont know( I used to but parents don't let me) anyways a couple off months ago I saw a couple friends who I didn't request I thought I had just maybe misclicked but this has happened a lot (like every couple day) so Im just wondering if I can tell or if you dont decline someone they automatically become in your friends thanks :)
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theragingrotweiller
Nov 19, 2024
theragingrotweiller
Nov 19, 2024
k Friend requests
mathbeast180   2
N Jan 28, 2024 by Turtle09
How to view everyone I've requested to be my friend?
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mathbeast180
Jan 28, 2024
Turtle09
Jan 28, 2024
k Triple Friend Request
Chonkachu   7
N Jan 13, 2024 by Andrew2019
So I left my AoPS account for about a month for the Christmas season and came back and saw 3 friend requests from the same user "Mango247" I don't think this should happen even if you sent a friend request three times but I had to make sure.
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Chonkachu
Jan 13, 2024
Andrew2019
Jan 13, 2024
k How to not recieve friend requests?
Craftybutterfly   6
N Nov 12, 2023 by roribaki
I am not sure where to put this question.
How can you like not allow people to send friend request to me? (I have got like 5 friend requests from some random users. It may have to do with what gender I am. Gender of me. Don't look unless you would like to)
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Craftybutterfly
Nov 12, 2023
roribaki
Nov 12, 2023
k Friends List not working
Red_Fox_1293   3
N Jul 19, 2022 by jlacosta
Hello.
My friends list, and when I look at other people's profiles, their friends list is not showing all their friends, only the first few rows.
I do not know why this is or how to reproduce.
Thanks.
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Red_Fox_1293
Jul 16, 2022
jlacosta
Jul 19, 2022
k Friends list
whims   10
N Feb 14, 2022 by RohanQV
Hi there,

I am having trouble viewing my friends list, as well as other's friends list. What happens is I can see about 5 rows of the list, and then when I scroll downwards, the page just ends. I can't see any other people other than just the people that were first loaded in. This is recreate able on the latest google chrome update. I tried to view several other people's friends list but I keep running into the same problem.

Thanks
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whims
Feb 13, 2022
RohanQV
Feb 14, 2022
Finding a subsquare from the main square
goodar2006   2
N May 30, 2025 by quantam13
Source: Iran 3rd round 2012-Special Lesson exam-Part 2-P4
Prove that if $n$ is large enough, in every $n\times n$ square that a natural number is written on each one of its cells, one can find a subsquare from the main square such that the sum of the numbers is this subsquare is divisible by $1391$.
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goodar2006
Sep 15, 2012
quantam13
May 30, 2025
Finding a subsquare from the main square
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Prove that if $n$ is large enough, in every $n\times n$ square that a natural number is written on each one of its cells, one can find a subsquare from the main square such that the sum of the numbers is this subsquare is divisible by $1391$.
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This is also Gallai's theorem (see here, page 12).

Let $A = \{a_{i,j}\}_{1\le i,j \le n}$, be the matrix corresponding to entries in the square.
Define $B = \{b_{i,j}\}_{1\le i,j \le n}$, where $b_{i,j} = \sum_{k=1}^i\sum_{\ell=1}^j a_{k,\ell}$.

Then the sum of the values of $A$ over a sub-square, $(i+1,i+k) \times (j+1,j+k)$, equals the sum $b_{i+k,j+k} + b_{i,j} - b_{i,j+k} - b_{i+k,j}$.

Let the entries of $B \mod 1391$ be a colouring of the $n\times n$ lattice. If $n$ is sufficiently large, then by Gallai's theorem there exists $4$ monochromatic lattice points that are vertices of a square. These correspond to four entries of $B$ such that $b_{i+k,j+k} + b_{i,j} - b_{i,j+k} - b_{i+k,j} \equiv 0 \mod 1391$. This is exactly what we wanted to prove.
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