About two mysterious scores

silouan

At the imo official page I saw that two contestants of the Israel team , one with 8 points and the other with 3 points , and they got bronze medal and honorable mention respectively. Why this did happen ? Could someone tells us about that story ?

**Posted:** Sun May 24, 2009 2:46 pm

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darij grinberg

See the footnote:
§ Contestant was awarded by the decision of the Jury due to special circumstances.

The Hebrew translation of the problem texts had a mistake that made a problem trivial.

darij

**Posted:** Sun May 24, 2009 2:49 pm

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silouan

I had seen the foot note , but I wanted to know about these "special circumstances" Smile

Thanks for the explanation

**Posted:** Mon May 25, 2009 3:40 am

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test20 · Poincare Conjecture Offline Joined: 13 Jul 2004 Posts: 220

**Posted:** Mon May 25, 2009 5:30 am