competition-math

[thin pumice]

gauss or fryer?

[trail ember]

gauss

[thin pumice]

ohh waitt can i add u?? we have a study gc

[trail ember]

ok

[inland totem]

hmm

[silver forge]

bro

april first is fryer

[silver forge]

so why do u say ur doing gauss

grade sevens should probably do gauss

unless your advanced

[inland totem]

hmm

[tiny eagle]

He said he did gauss in 6th..

[patent island]

Hello

[silver forge]

Hi

[patent island]

I don't know if this server is interested in terms of big numbers but I'd like to do a proposition : the brand new Biggest number ever created

[silver forge]

Ok?

you cant create the biggest number

there will always be one larger

[ivory ember]

<@&268886789983436800> I am confusion

[inland totem]

what

[proud quest]

what

[inland totem]

just

happened

[proud quest]

translator is not having a good time with that link

present of Ontological discontinuities (Sausage of civilization)

[viral sierra]

Hello friend

[spark garden]

Please don't advertise here going forward

[thorny tusk]

that was an advertisement?

[thorny tusk]

o shi

why are euclid and fgh back to back 😭

[inland totem]

hmmm

[viral sierra]

hallo friend

[silver forge]

harharhar

Fgh to fry u

[thorny tusk]

...

:||

[thorny tusk]

r u doing both

[fringe prism]

hallo

[silver forge]

nah im grade nine so i cant do euclid

[pseudo matrix]

is anyone doing hypatia

[fringe prism]

no

[digital drum]

yeah

ig that makes 4 people total now

[frank hornet]

it's kind of stressful both Euclid and Galois are back to back...but I think I'll be fine

[thorny tusk]

yea

[fringe prism]

hallo

[molten lotus]

yeye

[fringe prism]

hallo!

[molten lotus]

are u g11 rn

[fringe prism]

no 10

[frank hornet]

me too

and I'm so cooked for MK and euclid and galois

[fringe prism]

RIPP

[frank hornet]

yea

[fringe prism]

hi friend

[frank hornet]

hi!

[inland totem]

hmmm

[viral sierra]

Hallo friend

[fringe prism]

h friend

hi

[fringe prism]

Hi friebd

[thorny tusk]

wats MK

[inland totem]

math kangaroo i think

[thorny tusk]

ooo

i got third and then second last 2 years

[inland totem]

idk

never done it

[frank hornet]

yeah it's math kangaroo

I feel like it's rly hard smh

[little wraith]

fr

[tulip sand]

are there any IMO medalists in this server

[thorny tusk]

there are

[swift imp]

Yes

[inland totem]

hmmm

who

[thorny tusk]

that one italian one i talked to

[inland totem]

wow

so specific

[fringe prism]

hi

[inland totem]

hmm i js realized i'm almost done with calc iii

diff eq is kinda boring tbh

[thorny tusk]

i js realized ur a sweat

[inland totem]

wow

[silver forge]

Its true patrick

[thorny tusk]

yea patricia

[inland totem]

ik

js wondering how u didn't notice

[silver forge]

you are either the sweatiest mf of all time or you have traded your social life for a mental disability that caused cognitive greatness

[inland totem]

both? both is good

[silver forge]

nah

https://klipy.com/gifs/cat-yin-yang-2

[inland totem]

hmm

[silver forge]

and your grade eight only?

[thorny tusk]

unc

imagine being g8

[silver forge]

how old are you

grade seven?

prob young cuz u doin gauss as i remember

My elementary school didnt have gr seven gauss i think

i only could do grade eight

[thorny tusk]

huh

nah i did cayley bro

[inland totem]

wut

[thorny tusk]

wut?

[silver forge]

thats not what you said like two days ago

[thin pumice]

cayley is done by students who are grade 10 or bellow. Like how fermat and pascal are open to elementary students too

theres grade 6s writing pascal bro

[thorny tusk]

huh i did pascal and cayley, pascal was at school

istg i didnt do gauss this year

[silver forge]

Oh

[silver forge]

https://klipy.com/gifs/who-is-this-173

[thorny tusk]

like, gng who does both gauss and cmo in the same year 😭

[silver forge]

You tell me

[thorny tusk]

not me

[silver forge]

Then who are you referring to

[silver forge]

CMO is tuff especially for ppl below geade eight

[thorny tusk]

nobody im try to infer i didnt do gauss

[thorny tusk]

yay

[silver forge]

oh you made it to cmo?

congratulations

https://klipy.com/gifs/one-piece-dab-me-up

Well deserved glaze

but remember

https://klipy.com/gifs/jurassic-world-bigger-fish

[inland totem]

he's sweatier than me

[silver forge]

yeah too many sweats

[thorny tusk]

'calculus iii'

[inland totem]

"cmo"

[thorny tusk]

'differntial equ'

[silver forge]

teaming up to glaze each other is wild tho

All the math geeks need to be more humble imo

[inland totem]

"i got a ||x|| on aime"

[thorny tusk]

patrick how bout we compromise and say @silver forge is a sweat

[inland totem]

oh ye

that way i won't leak

[inland totem]

@silver forge =sweat

[thorny tusk]

yeaa

[silver forge]

bro i need to sweat because my natural intellect is not that high

[thorny tusk]

dam agreeing is crzy

sweat

sweat

[inland totem]

taews

[silver forge]

stfu

https://klipy.com/gifs/homeless-man-kung-fu

Thats homeless fam after i give him two rotten socks and a shiny stone and tell him to guard the house

[thorny tusk]

.

[fringe prism]

Hi

[scenic lintel]

uuuuuummmmmmm?

[inland totem]

is my bio tuff

[fringe prism]

ye

[last hearth]

so tuff

[silver forge]

no it isnt gng

shi makes no sense

https://klipy.com/gifs/blackbeard-blackbeard-writing

[silver forge]

why is bro aura farming with the pfp

Lowk tuff tho

[fringe prism]

mine?

[silver forge]

yeah i pinged you who else

[severe eagle]

i thought this was china MO

💀

[silver forge]

lmao

canadian

[severe eagle]

is it hard?

what M are the questions

[silver forge]

I havent even done the open contest questions before

[severe eagle]

ah

okay then

[silver forge]

I only got interested like two months ago

[severe eagle]

is it like imo format

[silver forge]

Why are you still asking

[severe eagle]

eh idk

[silver forge]

Are you illiterate

[severe eagle]

sir

[silver forge]

Read my previous messages

[severe eagle]

if you only got interested in it two months ago

then you are interested in it

dont tell me youve never seen a candian mo question before

[scenic kestrel]

arent they the same everywhere

[severe eagle]

they are?

[scenic kestrel]

i mean questions should not be harder/easier depending on the country

[severe eagle]

different olympiads have different difficulties

[scenic kestrel]

weird

[ivory ember]

orz u hardest Olympiad

[severe eagle]

like aime is different from china MO

thats because they cater to different people

i dont think its weird at all

[scenic kestrel]

wait that makes sense

[severe eagle]

❌ you orz

[silver forge]

i havent

[severe eagle]

💀 💀

ok

[silver forge]

…

[severe eagle]

remember: you started being rude to me with this message, which allows me to respond in kind

[severe eagle]

.

[silver forge]

???

you asked a stupid question and i pointed it out

[severe eagle]

[silver forge]

are you a snowflake muffinhead fifth grader

I wasnt tryna offend you

[severe eagle]

well you did

but i didnt really care anyway

[severe eagle]

its hard to imagine if youre interested in math olympiad but NEVER done a question from your local MO before

[silver forge]

im practicing for other contests too gng 🥀

anywahs

anyhow

anyway

Excuse my gibberish

Im done arguing with you

if you want validation, your not getting any

dont

Ask

stupid

[severe eagle]

why would i want validation??

[silver forge]

questions

[severe eagle]

your attitude makes you sound like a "snowflake muffinhead fifth grader"

but sure

[shy prairie]

I won my community colleges local integration bee! In one of the cities rated lowest for education in the United States lol

The smallest time math competition but I'm still happy 🙂

[fringe prism]

RIP nice

[ivory ember]

[untold wing]

Did

Oh god

Am

I actually am speechless

Carbonite how tf did you not crash out

[thorny tusk]

aw hell nah

[thorny tusk]

chill

[thorny tusk]

chill

[thorny tusk]

nicee

win the MIT one next

[zinc ridge]

tuff emoticon

[zinc ridge]

yough

the last time ive ever used terminology like that

was in like sixth grade

were we used to make fun of ppl younger than us

that means

youre probably underage for discord

[thorny tusk]

hes llike grade 10 idk

[zinc ridge]

oh

[thorny tusk]

or 9

yea

[zinc ridge]

then i guess hes just weirdly weird then

muffinhead is a questionable insult

the last time i called somebody a muffinhead was like 4 years ago

[thorny tusk]

u did?

[zinc ridge]

yeah

[thorny tusk]

:||

[zinc ridge]

muffinface

dher

[severe eagle]

[zinc ridge]

huh

[severe eagle]

eh

its okay

[thorny tusk]

yea

[severe eagle]

i was rude to him because he was rude to me first, so i believe i was justified

[zinc ridge]

i got flamed by my aops instructor for not paying attention😢

[severe eagle]

fah

you take the aops public school?

how is it

[zinc ridge]

i take weekly classes

intermediate c and p

[severe eagle]

ooh

okay

[thorny tusk]

how would they know

[zinc ridge]

bc i may or may not have posted on the problem discussion forum

bc i was still trying to catch up on thw writing problem

from last week

now i have to request for a freaking extension

[thorny tusk]

imagine

i do the

uhh

[untold wing]

Carbonite how to be orz

[thorny tusk]

olympiad geo or some shi

[zinc ridge]

dang

why is u so orz

[thorny tusk]

we just did homothety

[zinc ridge]

i barely know how to solve for circumcenter

[zinc ridge]

thats not thaaaaat bad

like wdym homothety

like

what do u do

i have to go

[thorny tusk]

its dilation basically

in euclidean geometry

[zinc ridge]

yeah

[shy prairie]

Nah lol like I did the MIT test and it was fun and doable but the questions in the finals... I couldn't do that in the time limit 😅

[thorny tusk]

fun is crazy

last time i saw that shi i shut down my macbook

about as scary as momo to me

[shy prairie]

It's actually alright lol if you know the "trick" then they get really simple

Like they turn into the basic integrals after one trick

[thorny tusk]

:||

i probably need a trick to learn the trick to learn the trick to make the integrals simpler and even then i probably couldnt do it

[shy prairie]

It all cancels

#6 on the test

[thorny tusk]

o thats satisfying

[shy prairie]

Yeah! They're all fun puzzles - hard looking until you figure it out 🙂

[thorny tusk]

until you figure it out

[untold wing]

NOOOO

[thorny tusk]

which will be never

[thorny tusk]

lol

[untold wing]

• C

Oh no

Mb nvm

Lmao 😭

[thorny tusk]

:||

[untold wing]

I didn’t see it was a proper integral

I thought it was improper

1%

[thorny tusk]

say its +c-c 👍

=0

[untold wing]

Goodbye cruel calc world

[shy prairie]

Believe in yourself, friend! There's surprisingly few tricks to integrals and it's all in the hours you put in

[thorny tusk]

yea ill wait like 4 years...

[ivory ember]

Glasser's master theorem

[thorny tusk]

graph theory or diff eq gng

[ivory ember]

this

[thorny tusk]

get out this is the comp math server 😭

[ivory ember]

What makes you say that integration bees don't use this

the x - 1/x trick is relatively common

[fringe prism]

RIP the pfd

[fringe prism]

hallo friend

[shy prairie]

Lol I had an argument with my professor over the PV once

[thorny tusk]

wsg

[wintry badger]

Try this

[thorny tusk]

gng isnt there a calculus channel

[fringe prism]

XD yea

[fringe prism]

Halloa!

[wintry badger]

Gng there is a channel for everything but this is a question from a mathematics competition

[solemn pelican]

ok

[severe eagle]

your behaviours do not mirror your username

"kidgeniouso8"

[silver forge]

good logical reasoning sir

[stuck owl]

Narayana?

[junior bluff]

hello

[fringe prism]

hi

[frank hornet]

hi

[silver forge]

https://klipy.com/gifs/king-king-baldwin-1

[frank hornet]

hmm lol

[silver forge]

brother will say lol to anything

[frank hornet]

what

[fringe prism]

LOL

LOLL

[silver forge]

https://klipy.com/gifs/yuki-yuki-tsukumo-1

[fringe prism]

HALLO

[lilac estuary]

I have a math competition Tomorrow and I would honestly Like to know How you prepare on a competition ? Since a Lot of mental Mapping and Problem recognition is involved, it could involve any Part of Math

[silver forge]

depends on which comp

[lilac estuary]

Well its a more of a national german competition called “Känguru-Wettbewerb”, where you have 30 questions divided in 3 categories (A B C) via 10 questions and with each Category it gets more difficult to solve. You also have for every question 5 given answer to choose from. So there is no solution way required

[inland totem]

hmm

[silver forge]

practice the past contests

thats what i always do

[lilac estuary]

Alright thanks!

[untold wing]

Too late

Practice the past contests I guess

[viral sierra]

Hello friend

[lilac estuary]

what should i have done if I theoratically would approach earlier? So i have it for next time

[untold wing]

Grind problems, if you cant solve, read the solution, ask yourself why did the solution work.
If you solved, ask what Strat or what did you learn from the problem

And never conclude specific things like « oh its this factorisation trick, next time I’ll use it », you need to conclude stuff like « i should have utilised the propreties of prime and its unique divisibility propreties by making the expression a product of two stuff »

Hence the general conclusion is utilise unique propreties to the fullest

[viral sierra]

Hello friend (and fossil)

[thin pumice]

hi my non fossilized friend

[viral sierra]

halloa

[fringe prism]

Hi friebd

[fringe prism]

Hallo!

[viral sierra]

Hallo friend

[inland totem]

hmhm

ohhh my aops looks so beautiful now

[frank hornet]

hello!

[silver forge]

zelix’s vocabulary consists of: hallo, LOLLOL, friend, and Hi

[inland totem]

hmm

[fringe prism]

true

also, hi friend

[fringe prism]

Hi!

[fringe prism]

hi friend

[silver forge]

hello fellow

[spare lynx]

Im going to the state mathcounts competition for my middle school, how should I study?

[zinc ridge]

ummmm

its really bad this year

for you to prepare

i think

[inland totem]

well u can't rly learn anything in a day anyways

[zinc ridge]

u should look over states 2024

or nats tests

bc this year sucked for states (no spoiler)

[inland totem]

i js learned what a subfactorial was 😭

[zinc ridge]

why do you even need to know

[inland totem]

cuz i saw something like !(f(n)) on daily calc

and i had to search it up

[fringe prism]

Hru friend

[silver forge]

Excellent Zelix

Hope your doing fine yourself

[fringe prism]

thats nice, im alr too

friend

[viral sierra]

Do nats tests!! They are rlly fun and improved my mocking average from 40->44.5. But they still didn’t improve my ranking at states 🙁

[inland totem]

hrm

[fringe prism]

hm

[viral sierra]

Hullo friend!

[viral sierra]

Hallo friend

[fringe prism]

hru friend

[viral sierra]

Good. What about you friend?

[fringe prism]

im good too, ty friend

[thin pumice]

hi non fossilized friend ---a dinosaur

jk

[fringe prism]

LOl

[frank hornet]

hi friends

[ashen hatch]

meow, hai

[hazy wraith]

hi

[thin pumice]

hiii

[fringe prism]

hi friend

[neon summit]

AoPS

[zinc ridge]

not the best for mathcounts

[neon summit]

I dunno what mathcounts is I was js joking

didn't know this place had a competition math place

hi how do I do this

AM-GM didn't work 😔
is it AM-GM and I'm not trying hard enough

[digital drum]

have any of you guys ever seen the waterloo Problem Solving and Mathematical Discovery courseware. And if you have what are your opinions on it

do you think it will help me for the hypathia

[neon summit]

sqrt(n(n-1))__<__sqrt2/(2^(1/n)-1)
but I don't think (n+n-1)/2 is strictly __<__sqrt2/(2^(1/n)-1) which is what I'm confused abt

of do I have to do something like (2^(1/n)-1)__<__sqrt((2/(n-1))-(2/n))

[thorny tusk]

but

[mighty pine]

i'd probably show the lhs for some n large enough < 0

[thorny tusk]

AoPS helps with all

[mighty pine]

ok yeah that'll still work

when the lhs is < 0

[thorny tusk]

make the RHS into a sum of n numbers minus 1

or somethn

[mighty pine]

the rhs > 0

[neon summit]

so (2^(1/n)-1)<sqrt((2/(n-1))-(2/n))?

[thorny tusk]

maybeee?

[neon summit]

LHS is pretty much just greater than 0

[thorny tusk]

or maybe a sum of 2n numbers

[neon summit]

?

[mighty pine]

had to think about it the limit should be 1

will probably only work for something like p/q, p < q

so it should be non-negative

[neon summit]

2^1/n>2^1/inf'>'2^0=1
for n<inf so -1 it's just positive(trust guys it makes sense)

[thorny tusk]

or n/2 numbers 😭 cuz yk theres a sqrt on the rhs

[neon summit]

I'm kinda bored so I picked a random one

[neon summit]

I'm

confused

[thorny tusk]

me too

[fringe prism]

halloa

[thorny tusk]

since its n>=2 u prolly need somethn in QM-AM-GM-HM

[neon summit]

4^(1/n)-2^(1/n+1)+1__<2/(n-1)-2/n
2/(n-1)-2/n+2^(1/n+1)-4^(1/n)=2/(n-1)-2/n+2^((n+1)/n)-4^(1/n)>1
2/(n-1)-2/n+(2^(n+1)-4)^(1/n)>__1
which I then dunno what to do

[mighty pine]

lowk want to do partial fraction decomposition but i have to square

it should hold here because both should be strictly positive anyways

[neon summit]

yeah but it kinda didn't work
rms am gm didn't really work

[mighty pine]

2/n(n - 1)

2/n(n - 1) = A/n + B/n - 1

2 = A(n - 1) + Bn

[thorny tusk]

...

js 2

[neon summit]

the issue is trying to remove the 1/n, of course I can just express it as a singular variable and set it up but the issue with that is the setup to that point

[mighty pine]

B = 2

A = -2

[neon summit]

1/(x-1)-1/x=1/x(x-1)
so ye

[mighty pine]

ok awesome

[neon summit]

um

erm

I wanna say smth but I'd be hated for it

[thorny tusk]

lowk yall do this shi on scrap paper and post the important shi

[mighty pine]

waht

[neon summit]

((2/(n-1)-2/n)^(1/2)+1)^n__>__2

AM-GM seems possible?

hmm

[stuck tartan]

use like (1+x)^n ≥ 1+nx

[neon summit]

ohhhhh

bernoulli's inequality

ohhhh

[stuck tartan]

cuz if u let x = 2^(1/n) - 1

u have that 2 ≥ 1 + nx, so x≤ 1/n

so u have 2^(1/n) - 1 ≤ 1/n ≤ sqrt(2/n-1 - 2/n)

[neon summit]

so x__<1/2
so 2^(1/n)-1<__1/2
which is easier to prove now

thanks

oml

[stuck tartan]

i think u want it in terms of n

[neon summit]

wait

[stuck tartan]

cuz u have to prove for all n not js n=2

cuz u need to show 1/n ≤ sqrt(2/(n(n-1)))

not js 1/2 ≤ sqrt(2/n(n-1)))

[neon summit]

uhh

wait

my brain isn't equipped for this I just sent that randomly

[neon summit]

yeah

1/n^2__<2/(n-1)-2/n?
n(n-1)<2n^2?
so n^2+n>__0?

wait

[neon summit]

true for n__>1 or n<0, which is true for n>__2? and also it can't be 0 and 1 bc they don't have values in the place

[neon summit]

thanks I been trying to remember that

[quiet belfry]

hey yalls, anyone in the socal area?

idk if those counts as advertisement but UCLA will soon be publishing their new Los Angeles Math Tournament, similar to BMT/SMT/HMMT. I'm working with my team go host it around mid-may after AP Exams. How interested would ppl be for this?

[thorny tusk]

me

[quiet belfry]

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPb04YNryU7GcZcHvcA5ajLuOpSkvhnwSWsBClxBwXiKhUCg/viewform

pls circulate as well if you can 🙏 we are trying to do some cool merch and unique rounds

[severe eagle]

ill do you a favour

discord.gg/mods

[quiet belfry]

thank you my goat

[severe eagle]

https://discordapp.com/channels/533153217119387658/732177143546642492

[severe eagle]

np

[severe eagle]

this is the advert channel

[severe eagle]

#help-20

anyone can cook geom

[viral sierra]

Halloa friend!

[fringe prism]

hi friend!

[viral sierra]

How are you friend?

[fringe prism]

good, hbu friend?

[viral sierra]

Good. Thank you for asking, friend

[fringe prism]

thats good, your welcome friend.

[viral sierra]

Bye friend! See you

[fringe prism]

bye, have a good day friend

[frank hornet]

hi friend!

[junior bluff]

hello

[fringe prism]

Hru friend

[frank hornet]

good, thnx, hbu?

[fringe prism]

that’s nice, me too friend

[inland totem]

hi

[viral sierra]

hai friend!

[fringe prism]

hi friend

[viral sierra]

hiya!

[fringe prism]

Hru

[viral sierra]

Good , what about you?

[frank hornet]

that's great friend !

[fringe prism]

im good, Ty friend

[fringe prism]

Hru friend?

[viral sierra]

That's great, friend

[frank hornet]

I'm doing well, friend

[fringe prism]

ikr

[fringe prism]

that’s good friend

[frank hornet]

Ty friend. How are you?

[fringe prism]

np friend, im good ty

[potent nymph]

anyone tryna help me w last second prep for math kangaroo 7-8 for my lil bro

dm me

[silver forge]

make him do past contests

also purchase vitamin d pills and fish scales and grind it into a power

powder

then make him smoke it

It boosts brainpower

[night mica]

Gng anyone have imo mmo today

[zinc coyote]

I joined this server after seeing someone send me a screenshot of the above message 💀

[viral sierra]

Hello friend

[soft vigil]

did u used to be an aops spammer

i recognize the username

[viral sierra]

@soft vigil were you on my team on alphastar for a random comp 2 or 3 yrs ago?

[zinc coyote]

Hello

[random rose]

Hey can someone help me see what a overlanding truck drawer system can support weight wise?

[zinc coyote]

Excuse me? 😭

Ngl yea you could consider me a spammer

But I'm inactive now

[soft vigil]

probably

[inland totem]

hmmm

[long garden]

IM CRINE

[fringe prism]

Hi friend

[limber vault]

a

anyone have a list of like

every single factorization identity 🥹

gonna include like

niche ahh ones

such as sophie germain identity

[tawdry furnace]

@quiet belfry in general we dont allow posting surveys here. as indicated above you may want to try posting it in MODS (first see if MODS staff will allow it, im not sure)

[quiet belfry]

oop im sorry!

where is thst?

[tawdry furnace]

you were referred there earlier today

https://i.gyazo.com/d7454880e71eb55034f2e24ea7d18a10.png

[quiet belfry]

oh yes! they posted as well :)

[earnest sapphire]

does anyone have any tips to help me get a gold in math competitions?

i just competed in an olympiad and even after i studied as much as i could i couldn't get any medal

[silver forge]

do a bunch of past contests and questions

and after each one you finish, try finding more solutions and draw conclusions

[earnest sapphire]

i'll be trying that,thanks for the advice

[earnest sapphire]

i mean,i did that before the competition but i still got humbled by the exam

[fringe prism]

Gg

[silver forge]

https://klipy.com/gifs/lebron-elite

[silver forge]

Strengthen your weak concepts

If you struggle with probability, practice that more

[inland totem]

hmm

[thin pumice]

dont js practice relearn the WHOLE thing

[silver forge]

You dont need to restart..

Just focus on concepts you dont understand

[thin pumice]

its more reliable if ur desperate

[thin pumice]

but if u blindly practice u wont be able to understand anyways

[silver forge]

Just go to the library and read begginers books

[severe eagle]

This might be a decent method ngl

you have to build the basic first

把基础打好

[severe eagle]

can i ask which MO that was

[thin pumice]

classic asian parent line when they think ur dumb

[stark ingot]

can anyone give me an imo maximization problem

[inland totem]

hmm

[ivory ember]

2018 IMOSL A4

[viral sierra]

Hallo friend

[thin pumice]

hihi

[viral sierra]

How are you, friend?

[thin pumice]

good wby?

[viral sierra]

Its nice to hear that. I am also good. Thank you for asking!

[tiny eagle]

Yall lwk I get straight hundreds in my calc class and understand it conceptually (true for all my math classes) but I still suck at comp math

Like even just amc questions

Is it a problem with my foundations?

Or like what

Considering I do a lot of practice questions and tests for comps asw

Is there anything I’m missing?

I’d be very grateful if someone could point me in the right direction 🙏

[viral sierra]

Maybe you can try doing alcumus problems under time pressure, taking some late amc/aime practice courses, writing a mistake log or some like that

[viral sierra]

But also, choose quality over quantity. Doing 2 tests a day but looking over all errors and identifying weaknesses is often better than doing 6 tests a day (i can confirm from personal experience)

[tiny eagle]

Ty for the advice

[novel storm]

How do you do this?

[inland totem]

expand the square and turn it into a quadratic in p

[novel storm]

did it

[inland totem]

hmm

[novel storm]

but dont know where to go from there
tried to factor and find solutions(Solved it but it took way too long and it wasnt meant to be solved like that)

[inland totem]

so u tested values so the discriminant would be a aquare?

[novel storm]

uhh no

just got all the factors of 2024 and plugged them into P

[inland totem]

so what did u do then

uh

[novel storm]

also what is the discriminant to a 2 variable equation?

[inland totem]

for a polynomial in the form ax^2+bx+c, the discriminant is b^2-4ac

[novel storm]

but expanding and simply leaves us with p(p-3q) = 2024

ax^2 + bxy + c =0

[inland totem]

we move the terms to one side

sp p^2-3pq-2024=0

then find discriminant

[novel storm]

what does finding the discriminant do here?

[inland totem]

cuz the discriminant has to be a square

so we can set it to be some integer n^2

and use diff of squares

[novel storm]

ok so
4096 -3q = n^2
and

[inland totem]

hm?

9q^2-8096=n^2

[novel storm]

mb and what do i do next?

[inland totem]

turn it into 9q^2-n^2=-8096

and turn that into (3q-n)(3q+n)=-8096

[novel storm]

yep

[inland totem]

so now we js need to find x (3q-n) and y (3q+n) so that x+y=6q and xy=8096

tbf i've been too lazy to do it past this point

[novel storm]

bro isnt this just the same as check all factors of 2024 and plugging them in?

[inland totem]

hmm wait

i mean not rly

only need to test a few factor pairs

[novel storm]

also isnt x+y = 6q(not 6n) and xy = 8096

[inland totem]

oh ye not 6n

mb

hmm wait i'm not even finding any solutions

[night mica]

Heyyy

Anyone who did mmo imo how was it

[fringe prism]

Idk

[soft vigil]

are WE locked in for tmw

[inland totem]

usamo

but i didn't qual

[little wraith]

rip

i STILL don’t
know what i got on amc8

[inland totem]

hmm

[soft vigil]

its on edvistas

[little wraith]

fr?

show
pls

[soft vigil]

probably

either that or ask ur proctor

[little wraith]

HELPPPP

[soft vigil]

i didnt take amc8 but it should show something like this

[little wraith]

I SOLD

OMG

IT IFNALLT SJOW

SHOWED

HELP

[inland totem]

holy orz

[inland totem]

what did u get

[soft vigil]

howd u do

[inland totem]

actually tell in gc

[little wraith]

i don’t wanna talk about it

[soft vigil]

over or under 20

[little wraith]

under

😌

[soft vigil]

https://giphy.com/gifs/flightreacts-alextekah-roloroll-yasK38fdvOi6IR1gbn

[little wraith]

i fucking sold

omg

like really
bad

[soft vigil]

amc8 is not the end of the world

it doesnt qualify for anything

focus on amc10 trust

[inland totem]

it's okay

focus on amc 10

it's mor important anyways

[little wraith]

trust i’m locking in

but in front of the ENTIRE middle school they announce your score

i don’t want that

[inland totem]

huh

oh u took from school

[long garden]

fried

[soft vigil]

ur js a hater

[little wraith]

yes

[soft vigil]

WE are all locked in

[inland totem]

if u make imo i'll be proud

[fringe prism]

same

[barren anvil]

dang did you qual for jmo

[viral sierra]

Orz

[viral sierra]

Holy orz!

[barren anvil]

💀 cooked

this is what happens when you suck

[inland totem]

better than me

i didn't even take amc 10 💀

[barren anvil]

why

broo I sillied 2 and 3 on aime

[inland totem]

missed registration

hmmm

[viral sierra]

same, as well as 7,8,10

[barren anvil]

lmao

actually?

[viral sierra]

as I found out 😭

[inland totem]

we'll all qual this yr

trust

[barren anvil]

I did #5 on aime without trig or loc btw

[viral sierra]

Lemme js lock in and perf

[viral sierra]

same

[barren anvil]

equation

[inland totem]

oh i should do this yr's aime

[barren anvil]

bro I thought #2 was 5 digit

[viral sierra]

I need to lock in for next yr and get like a 13 (not happening tho)

[viral sierra]

sameeeee

and i realised last second that it was not

[soft vigil]

ye

[viral sierra]

and then i sillied

[viral sierra]

orzzzzz

[barren anvil]

I need to get 120+ and 8+ next year bruh

[soft vigil]

same

i made 3 sillies on aime 😭

[viral sierra]

lucky, i made at least 5 😭

[soft vigil]

that was me last year lol

[inland totem]

hmmm

wait guys root for my friend

he's going to jmo

[fringe prism]

bruh on rral

[viral sierra]

Hallo friend

[fringe prism]

halloa!!

[viral sierra]

How are you friend?

[fringe prism]

good hbu friend

[viral sierra]

Same, thank you for asking friend. Also did you qual for amo/jmo?

[fringe prism]

np friend, amo no, jmo yes

[inland totem]

orz

orz

orz

[viral sierra]

orz

orz

orz

orz

orz

orz

[fringe prism]

orz = imo

[inland totem]

zelix go to imo

trust

[viral sierra]

orz=zelix

norz=gorilla

[inland totem]

hmhm

[viral sierra]

zelix perf imo

[inland totem]

ye

[fringe prism]

bnoo

no*

[viral sierra]

YESSSSS

[fringe prism]

gotta lock in on chem

LOL

[little wraith]

[fringe prism]

0/0

[viral sierra]

Yet

[fringe prism]

will remain 0/0 for EVER

[thorny tusk]

will it tho

[thorny tusk]

IChO

perf

[fringe prism]

bruh ikr

[thorny tusk]

aw

[fringe prism]

LOLLLl

one day

maybe im already there (

[severe eagle]

fr

but i dont mean it thay way tho

[fringe prism]

LOL

bruh jmo tmrw

[thorny tusk]

nah '把基础打好' gives me flashbacks

of asian parents

being asian parents

[thorny tusk]

u got in?

[fringe prism]

oui

[severe eagle]

fair

good luck for jmo @fringe prism

[thorny tusk]

dayum

yea gl

[fringe prism]

bruhh

thankks

prolly fried

[thin pumice]

CONGRATSSSSS YAAAAAYYYYYYY

good luckkkk

[fringe prism]

thanks

[severe eagle]

i cant go because im not american sadly (even if i got invited)

ill do the usamo paper on the release date

[fringe prism]

wya friend

[severe eagle]

singapore

tstst is in 3 months

[fringe prism]

what ststststststststststs tststststststststststs

[thorny tusk]

ur doing tstst??? 😭

[severe eagle]

singapore tstst

[thorny tusk]

dam

how many tests did u pass to get there

[severe eagle]

3

[fringe prism]

wha

[icy drift]

$\int_{\frac{1}{2\sqrt{2}}}^{\infty}\left(2\mathrm{H}\left(\frac{1}{2}-x\right)-1\right)\sin^{-1}\left(\sqrt{\frac{\left|\sqrt{\frac{1}{8x}}-\sqrt{x-\frac{1}{8x}}\right|}{\left|\sqrt{\frac{1}{8x}}-\sqrt{x-\frac{1}{8x}}\right|+\sqrt[4]{\frac{1}{2}\left(1-\frac{1}{8x^{2}}\right)}}}\right)\frac{1-\sqrt{8x^{2}-1}}{x^{3}}dx$

[gilded halo]

Roy

[severe eagle]

😭

[jaunty ginkgo]

dude what are you doin here

Go solve geo problems or smth

[severe eagle]

im going to play badminton with friends

every saturday

im gonna beat then again

[jaunty ginkgo]

well fair enough, but isn't it pretty late rn for outside activities rn

[severe eagle]

,ti

[gilded halo]

The current time for craze.cv is 07:22 PM (+08) on Sat, 21/03/2026.

[severe eagle]

we play till 1030

[jaunty ginkgo]

[severe eagle]

[icy drift]

$\int_{\frac{1}{2}}^{2}\frac{\sec\left(x+\frac{1}{x}\right)\sec\left(\frac{\sqrt{17x^{2}-4x+4}}{2x}\right)\left(\left(\sqrt{17x^{2}-4x+4}x^{2}-\sqrt{17x^{2}-4x+4}-x+2\right)\cos\left(\frac{1-\frac{1}{2}\sqrt{17x^{2}-4x+4}}{x}+x\right)+\sin\left(\frac{1-\frac{1}{2}\sqrt{17x^{2}-4x+4}}{x}+x\right)\left(\left(x^{2}-1\right)\sqrt{17x^{2}-4x+4}\tan\left(x+\frac{1}{x}\right)+\left(x-2\right)\tan\left(\frac{\sqrt{17x^{2}-4x+4}}{2x}\right)\right)\right)}{x^{3}\sqrt{17x^{2}-4x+4}}dx$

[gilded halo]

Roy

[obsidian plank]

If I have the function f(yf(-y)-y) which is continuous does that mean that f(y) is continuous?

[inland totem]

uhhh

the car guy help me

[inland totem]

holy

[barren anvil]

c,ti

,ti

[gilded halo]

You haven't set your timezone! Set it using the interactive timezone picker with ,ti --set.

[barren anvil]

,ti --set EST

[gilded halo]

Your timezone has been set to EST!
Your current time is 08:06 AM (EST) on Sat, 21/03/2026.

[barren anvil]

uh its 9:06 but ok

.ti

,ti

[gilded halo]

The current time for aaron_6741_____ is 08:07 AM (EST) on Sat, 21/03/2026.

[inland totem]

hmm

[warped python]

,ti

[gilded halo]

You haven't set your timezone! Set it using the interactive timezone picker with ,ti --set.

[barren anvil]

,ti --set CESFSDFS

[gilded halo]

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[thorny tusk]

fahh

[inland totem]

hmmm

[inland totem]

ohh i'm going back to khan academy

this is a historical moment

[little wraith]

i love khan

[fringe prism]

same

[silver forge]

whats so good about khan academy

Just do the curriculm textbooks one by one

[tropic lion]

,ti --set IST

Indian

[gilded halo]

Your timezone has been set to Indian/Christmas!
Your current time is 12:38 AM (+07) on Sun, 22/03/2026.

[tropic lion]

Nah thats wrong

[junior bluff]

,ti --set Asia/Kolkata

[tropic lion]

Oh

Thx bro

,ti --set Asia/Kolkata

[gilded halo]

Your timezone has been set to Asia/Kolkata!
Your current time is 11:23 PM (IST) on Sat, 21/03/2026.

[tropic lion]

My name is also ghost

Just changed it for a while

[junior bluff]

no

ic

[fringe prism]

SUCH a bad idea

[thorny tusk]

oop

,ti --set North America/Edmonton

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[thorny tusk]

how does this work

[inland totem]

hehehe

[ashen hatch]

,ti --set PST

[gilded halo]

Your timezone has been set to PST8PDT!
Your current time is 12:39 PM (PDT) on Sat, 21/03/2026.

[ashen hatch]

cool

[inland totem]

hmmmm

[little wraith]

sunday!

it’s 15:55 on sat for me

[silver forge]

how

[fringe prism]

kha n goat

[silver forge]

Nah bruh

Ogs know that textbooks are op in math

[little wraith]

nah

[silk ledge]

guys im tryna do the amc next year how do u even study for it

[coarse comet]

No clue

[ashen hatch]

uhhh past tests and stuff, yt vids

[coarse comet]

That's a good answer

[silk ledge]

i gotta take the 12 this year too its wraps

[fringe prism]

SO bad

[fringe prism]

same bruh

gotta qual for sure

[fringe prism]

bruhhh SAME

def gotta aime qual

[silk ledge]

cab we study tg laterbro like i acc have to qual this year

i looked thru the tests and like wtf

[inland totem]

ye

[viral sierra]

i honestly need to at least get dhr this year

because last time i sold so hard

[fringe prism]

bruh same eLOL

[fringe prism]

qual is up to like problem 15

[silk ledge]

i jus dont get how to study for ts

[silver forge]

do questions from past contests

think on them for a long time

[broken dove]

anyone good at olympiad number theory?

[silver forge]

most questions take a long time to solve anyways

[thin pumice]

find which topics are on most tests and whicb u struggle with and study what u struggle with

[thin pumice]

8 or 10 or 12?

[viral sierra]

what type?

[viral sierra]

10

[fringe prism]

rip

[thin pumice]

oh good luckkk

cutoffs for that aint THAT high yet

[viral sierra]

because it is honestly kinda embarrassing that i have done it for 4 yrs and still no dhr 💀

[broken dove]

theres a question stumping me

[viral sierra]

can i see it?

[fringe prism]

NOT emabrasing

[broken dove]

its quite hard

i was trying for a long time

[viral sierra]

first of all try legendre.

[broken dove]

oh shit

bro im so fucking stupid

i got it

[viral sierra]

we see that m should probably be something like one less than 2^n

[broken dove]

ik how to do it now

thx

[fringe prism]

np

[inland totem]

ye i must qual aime

[viral sierra]

i need to not sell on aime

[inland totem]

i must qual jmo

i did in mock

so i can irl

trust

[fringe prism]

bruh SAME

[fringe prism]

SAME!

[silk ledge]

WE are all qualifying

[inland totem]

most obv legendre

[viral sierra]

same, im trying to lock in for next aime season

[fringe prism]

same

[inland totem]

i will ensure i qual by taking usamts and amc 10

[viral sierra]

o ill prolly not do usamts

[silk ledge]

whats usamts for

[inland totem]

hmmm

[silk ledge]

is that a diff comp

[inland totem]

no u can take online

[ashen hatch]

ugh i was too lazy to take the amc10 this year so i gotta lock in for it next year

[inland totem]

if u get a good enough score u get invited for aime

[silk ledge]

bro same

[silk ledge]

wtf deadass

[ashen hatch]

i was gonna js try it this year for the experience but uh then i lwk forgot

[silk ledge]

SAME lmaoo

[ashen hatch]

so next years my only shot at 10 before i gotta do 12 which imma get cooked for fs

[silk ledge]

i prepped over the summer and then jus forgot ab it but i gotta lock in now

[ashen hatch]

googles amc10 test date some months ago o-oh. oops.

[ashen hatch]

by the time i remembered the testing was over lmao

[silk ledge]

yea 12 looks horrible im scared ash

i cant even take 10 no more

[ashen hatch]

😭 nono glgl you'll cook

im in 9th so at leat i can do 10 at least

[viral sierra]

i need to lock in during the amcs, because although it is easy to mock 150s, i somehow ended up with borderline. aime qual

[silk ledge]

yea u got itt

[viral sierra]

you got this!

[ashen hatch]

ill try icl i did amc8 like three years ago and i got too scared to try it in middle school

its like i understand 10th grade math. but i dont understand amc10 lwk

[silk ledge]

i didnt even know the amc was a thing since last year

[silk ledge]

bro same

[inland totem]

js gotta buy aops books

trust

[silk ledge]

like im in calc nd i dont get the frickin amc style stuff

[ashen hatch]

i did amc8 in like 6th and, i think 7th, but i idn't really try

[ashen hatch]

one time i won an aops gift card from a coding comp but all the books were so expensive

[viral sierra]

do volume 2 trust

[tiny eagle]

@viral sierra I recognize ur server tag do u know a guy whose discord user is Asiago?

[inland totem]

hmmmm

[silk ledge]

real broo

[ashen hatch]

||where to pirate it /hj||

[ashen hatch]

volume 2 of wut tho

[inland totem]

one guy once posted a pirated version of vol 2

[tiny eagle]

Aops

[inland totem]

but there is a free prep book one online

[ashen hatch]

wait is it

this one

[silk ledge]

are there no free pdfs online

[ashen hatch]

i couldn't find it cus i googled amc10 vol 2 lol anyway