In this post I'm hoping to say a bit about the process that's used for the problem selection of the recent USEMO: how one goes from a pool of problem proposals to a six-problem test. (How to write problems is an entirely different story, and deserves its own post.) I choose USEMO for concreteness here,… Continue reading USEMO Problem Development, Behind the Scenes
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MOHS hardness scale
There's a new addition to my olympiad problems and solutions archive: I created an index of many past IMO/USAMO/USA TST(ST) problems by what my opinions on their difficulties are. You can grab the direct link to the file below: https://evanchen.cc/upload/MOHS-hardness.pdf In short, the scale runs from 0M to 50M in increments of 5M, and every… Continue reading MOHS hardness scale
Power Overwhelming 