Tag: walkthrough

  • IMO 2025

    “Live-solve” / Solution walk-through Have not been spoiled on the problems, but I have been spoiled on the scores, so I can roughly guess the difficulty of this paper. Day 1 (0h5m) First thoughts: CGN and the geom looks weird. Actually the FE looks weird also. Not much else to think about (0h10m) I tried…

  • IMO 2024 Day 2

    Was tough doing this in camp, but I’m finally done. It’s rare to see someone’s thought process for an entire paper, so here’s mine – hopefully it’s sufficiently entertaining. Needless to say, spoilers below. Here we go again! (0h0m) First thoughts: Ok GCA. Is that an FE?! What kind of word is aquaesulian? Why is…

  • IMO 2024 Day 1

    A lot of spoilers below. Stuck in camp, doing the entire paper on my Learnet. Here are the ramblings of a guy with insufficient sleep (may contain mistakes): (0h0m) First thoughts: Q1 looks very standard, like a mix between a junior olympiad question and a classical problem. Q2 also looks pretty standard, although the "for…