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March 13, 2005

APMO coming up soon

Very soon in fact, because it will be happening tomorrow. APMO stands for the Asian Pacific Mathematical Olympiad. The thing is, I don’t know why I am writing it, because I am not Asian nor Pacific, but I have been writing it for quite a while now, and they didn’t kick me out then, so I doubt they will kick me out now. Usually, it happens on a March Break, but now our March Break has been shifted a week ahead so I am going to take a day off school instead. Its your typical 4 hour - 5 questions olympiad, shouldn’t be anything too hard. I will tell you how I do after, ok?

Update: I solved 1 and 3 completely, my number 4 is messed (solution is generally correct, but unfortunately, I maximized a given variable, we will see how well that turns out), my number 2 is just wrong and 5… Its just a stupid diagram (and a bunch of special cases, but no general formula). Slightly frustrating I must say.

Posted by Oleg Ivrii at March 13, 2005 12:07 PM

Errr, we are not supposed to publicly discuss the contest yet, remember?

Posted by: Yufei at March 14, 2005 07:01 PM

We are not supposed to discuss the questions (or the answers for that matter) publicly. In any case, I doubt people can gain information useful for actually solving the contest from how well I do.

Posted by: Oleg Ivrii at March 14, 2005 09:55 PM