Questions tagged [contests]
For discussions about contest questions posted on this site.
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Searching for deleted questions
At the start of 2025 there were several questions paraphrasing a contest question (2/3/36 of https://files.usamts.org/Problems_36_3.pdf) including https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/5014709/the-...
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I am requesting the moderators to delete that post
As I lack sufficient reputation to comment, I am creating a meta post. I am requesting the moderators to delete that post because they are cheating Solving $(a+1)^{\log_a(x-2)} - a^{\log_{a+1}(x-1)} = ...
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Mathematical Challenges Question
Can people ask MSE for help in regards to refining or aiding them in solving and creating questions that could potentially be used in mathematical challenges or even Olympiads? My last posted question ...
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How to better ask problems from known contests?
As we know, AoPS has got contest collections, containing threads where users discuss corresponding contest problems. Therefore, is it really necessary to ask them on mathematics stack exchange, if one ...
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USAMTS 2022-23, third round
Previous rounds of this years' USAMTS were brought up recently on meta.1 This post is to serve as a reminder that there is an ongoing contest. The relevant links: the USAMTS site, the page with the ...
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USAMTS Discussion Policy
I see that discussion has “opened” (solutions posted to some of the problems) for this years USAMTS round 2 as the due date was November 28th. Close the discussion as soon as possible. Although the ...
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Someone is cheating on current USAMTS problems
I am the user @TheBestMagician, and I can’t log in to my normal account right now. I don’t have enough reputation to comment or flag a question, but the asker is cheating on literally all USAMTS ...
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What is the utility of the contest-math tag?
I thought it was put to prevent cheating in ongoing contests, but I am unable to figure out what utility it is of when put on questions from a contest, for which knowing answers in the present is ...
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Do problems from competitive exams for colleges count as "Competition Maths"?
I recently came across this post on always mentioning if a question is from a competition , and in the past, I've asked many questions that are from certain comeptitive exams in my country. However, ...
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Steps to avoid cheating in an International mathematics olympiad. [duplicate]
First of all, I am sorry if the title doesn't make sense as I am posting after quite some time now. Feel free to change it if you can make it more informative. I am part of the organising team of an ...
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There are several questions here which are basically from a current ($2021$-$2022$ round $1$) USAMTS math contest
The year $33$ online USAMTS $2021$-$2021$ round $1$ contest has a submit by date of October $18$, $2021$. However, although users are not allowed to ask questions online about it, there are $2$ ...
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Cheating in the Time of Corona
I ask you to consider not answering olympiad-style problems by relatively new users within the first six hours. I know that you consider it the responsibility of the organizers of a competition to ...
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Sudden influx of similar types of questions with grammatical and formatting errors
There have been 3 recent posts in the span of around 10 minutes with generally the same types of questions all coming from low score accounts. the length of a perpendicular inside of a triangle Adding ...
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How likely is it that a question with 2021 is from a current contest?
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4094863/ Original title: Olympiad Geometry, How can I find values of c such that f(c) is even? I have gotten an equation of c !! The OP was busy deleting the ...
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Possible math contest question
I've just discovered a possible math contest question... https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4069992/pqr-pqqrrp2021-find-all-triples-of-p-q-r-and-all-of-them-are-prime The "$2021$" ...
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