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Muirhead
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States556 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-03-14 06:01:50
March 14 2008 03:22 GMT
#1
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!

*****
starleague.mit.edu
Folca
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
2235 Posts
March 14 2008 03:40 GMT
#2
uh, what?
Dea : one time when he was playing vs the comps he asked me "how do I make that flying unit that makes the other stuff invisible" and I reply "ur playing terran zomg"
clazziquai
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
6685 Posts
March 14 2008 03:40 GMT
#3
What is Putnam?
#1 Sea.Really Fan / #1 Nesh Fan / Terran Forever~
UnitarySpace
Profile Joined November 2007
United States61 Posts
March 14 2008 03:44 GMT
#4
That's pretty fucking impressive. Second high school student I know to do that, other than of course Gabe Carroll.
Huh?
huameng
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States1133 Posts
March 14 2008 04:32 GMT
#5
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
skating
Snet *
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States3573 Posts
March 14 2008 04:36 GMT
#6
What is this?
Blind
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
United States2529 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-03-14 04:52:43
March 14 2008 04:41 GMT
#7
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
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
6685 Posts
March 14 2008 04:47 GMT
#8
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
#1 Sea.Really Fan / #1 Nesh Fan / Terran Forever~
Slithe
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States985 Posts
March 14 2008 04:48 GMT
#9
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
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
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
Can't believe I'm still here playing this same game
azndsh
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
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
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
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]
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada12499 Posts
March 14 2008 05:12 GMT
#13
Reading the wiki page, this sounds nuts O_o
ALEXISONFIRE ARE FUCKING BACK (sAviOr for life)
B1nary
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada1267 Posts
March 14 2008 05:27 GMT
#14
Did you get accepted into MIT yet? XD
Reflex
Profile Joined March 2007
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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