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Reply 1680
Original post by physicsmaths
Yeh its a maths competition for American Unis. Olympids for Uni basically. The winners are normally all IMO gold medalists form USA China a far east etc and MIT normally wins overall.


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Do you anything about vieta jumping cos I have no idea how to use it...apparently its a shortcuut
Original post by 11234
Do you anything about vieta jumping cos I have no idea how to use it...apparently its a shortcuut



Vieta jumping is basically when we have number theory division problems mainly and we minimise a+b (a,b) solutions and we use this to get polynomials which we then solve useful relations to eventually solve the problem.
It is very powerful.
This sums it up very nicely
http://www.yimin-ge.com/doc/VietaJumping.pdf


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Original post by physicsmaths
Vieta jumping is basically when we have number theory division problems mainly and we minimise a+b (a,b) solutions and we use this to get polynomials which we then solve useful relations to eventually solve the problem.
It is very powerful.
This sums it up very nicely
http://www.yimin-ge.com/doc/VietaJumping.pdf


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thats a nice result actually, never heard of it. Im guessing its less common in olympiad stuff nowadays cus its more well known?
Original post by EnglishMuon
thats a nice result actually, never heard of it. Im guessing its less common in olympiad stuff nowadays cus its more well known?


Not really though the method of a+b minimsed is extremely common across competition across the world. A similar method is used in inequalities where we fix one variable say 'x' and then we have some constraints like x+y+z=1 and we have deltax +x etc.


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I feel inadequate whenever maths talk happens
Original post by C0balt
I feel inadequate whenever maths talk happens


Just ignore it
Original post by physicsmaths
Yeh its a maths competition for American Unis. Olympids for Uni basically. The winners are normally all IMO gold medalists form USA China a far east etc and MIT normally wins overall.


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Nah Harvard has more wins
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Original post by C0balt
I feel inadequate whenever maths talk happens


Me too
Original post by Student403
Nah Harvard has more wins


Thats from back in the day.
Now MIT is the best.


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Original post by C0balt
I feel inadequate whenever maths talk happens


If only I knew what inadequate means.



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Original post by physicsmaths
If only I knew what inadequate means.



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I'll use it in a sentence. Your grasp of the English language is inadequate :smile:


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Original post by drandy76
I'll use it in a sentence. Your grasp of the English language is inadequate :smile:


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Your grasp of Mathematics is inadequate :smile:



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Original post by physicsmaths
Your grasp of Mathematics is inadequate :smile:



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Too far bruv


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Reply 1693
Original post by physicsmaths
Your grasp of Mathematics is inadequate :smile:



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Have you come across projective geometry, I saw it in a problem and was wondering how it works? Any tips/links?
Original post by drandy76


Tis joke.
Look at my use of 'tis' this is proper english ygm. 🌝


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Original post by physicsmaths
Tis joke.
Look at my use of 'tis' this is proper english ygm. 🌝


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**** English fam, we should just speak in maths notation, would be so lit


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Original post by Student403
Nah Harvard has more wins


only cus we arent apart of it. otherwise TSR mathmos 1st, rest of Cambridge 2nd, inferior muricans = last.
It's so sad when you're out shopping and see a fit dress on sale that would be perfect for formals but don't know if you should buy it yet :frown:
Original post by physicsmaths
Thats from back in the day.Now MIT is the best.Posted from TSR Mobile


Yeah they've won the recent ones

Original post by EnglishMuon
only cus we arent apart of it. otherwise TSR mathmos 1st, rest of Cambridge 2nd, inferior Oxfordians = last.


corrected :wink:
Original post by Serine Soul
It's so sad when you're out shopping and see a fit dress on sale that would be perfect for formals but don't know if you should buy it yet :frown:


^^^kms feeling

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