Putnam

Muirhead

United States556 Posts

March 14 2008 03:22 GMT

It seems I barely made it into the top 100. I'm happy to make it that far as a high school student, but I can't help feeling I would have placed much higher if I hadn't screwed up A1. Anyone else from teamliquid do well?

EDIT: For Slithe, my favorite problem of the ones I solved:

Let n be a positive integer. Find the number of pairs of polynomials (P(x),Q(x)) with real coefficients such that:
1. P squared plus Q squared is equal to x^(2n) + 1
and
2. The degree of Q is strictly greater than the degree of P

Here, x^(2n) means x to the (2n)th power.

I like it because it has a relatively short, clever solution

EDIT 2: One of my friends who did high school tests with me last year placed in the top 6!

Folca

2235 Posts

March 14 2008 03:40 GMT

uh, what?

clazziquai

6685 Posts

March 14 2008 03:40 GMT

What is Putnam?

UnitarySpace

United States61 Posts

March 14 2008 03:44 GMT

That's pretty fucking impressive. Second high school student I know to do that, other than of course Gabe Carroll.

huameng

United States1133 Posts

March 14 2008 04:32 GMT

This is very, very impressive. From someone who is probably gonna struggle with AIME next week, i want you to know how fucking good you are at math, in case you didn't know before. Teach teamliquid your ways :o

Snet

United States3573 Posts

March 14 2008 04:36 GMT

What is this?

Blind

United States2529 Posts

March 14 2008 04:41 GMT

What is Putnam?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lowell_Putnam_Mathematical_Competition

From Wikipedia:
"The examination is considered to be very difficult: it is typically attempted by students specializing in mathematics, but the median score is usually one or two points out of 120 possible, and there have been only three perfect scores as of 2005."

clazziquai

6685 Posts

March 14 2008 04:47 GMT

On March 14 2008 12:22 Muirhead wrote:
It seems I barely made it into the top 100. I'm happy to make it that far as a high school student, but I can't help feeling I would have placed much higher if I hadn't screwed up A1. Anyone else from teamliquid do well?

You're fucking crazy. OMG :O

props man

Slithe

United States985 Posts

March 14 2008 04:48 GMT

Very nice. That is quite an accomplishment, especially at the high school level. Care to post any of the more interesting problems so that we can give it a whirl?

Luddite

United States2315 Posts

March 14 2008 04:57 GMT

#10

I find it very ironic that this blog is right above the other one:http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=67956

azndsh

United States4447 Posts

March 14 2008 05:00 GMT

#11

did not realize there were such math nerds at TL

what was your score?

pat777

United States356 Posts

March 14 2008 05:11 GMT

#12

That is insanely good (that might as well be a typo of Godly). You are basically a high school student who owns most college math majors in math.

ShaLLoW[baY]

Canada12499 Posts

March 14 2008 05:12 GMT

#13

Reading the wiki page, this sounds nuts O_o

B1nary

Canada1267 Posts

March 14 2008 05:27 GMT

#14

Did you get accepted into MIT yet? XD

Reflex

Canada703 Posts

March 14 2008 05:59 GMT

#15

On March 14 2008 12:22 Muirhead wrote:
It seems I barely made it into the top 100. I'm happy to make it that far as a high school student, but I can't help feeling I would have placed much higher if I hadn't screwed up A1. Anyone else from teamliquid do well?

You forgot to write /brag at the end.

/jealousy

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