Finite Twin n-Rocks Conjecture

Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:23 pm, by pythag011

So uh.... does anyone know if this is true?

Define a n-Rock to be a positive integer with only prime divisors <= n.

Define a twin n-Rock to be a pair of two consecutive n-Rocks.

Prove that there are finitely many twin n-Rocks.

imo 2009.6

Sat Jul 18, 2009 2:13 am, by pythag011

OK, according to someone's post in the problem thread, very few people had full solutions... is this problem actually that hard?

Since its not that hard at all to think of induction and its fairly obvious to consider the last one... its fairly straightforward and alex zhai said it was pretty easy compared to most #6s...

IMO 2009 Day 1

Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:29 pm, by pythag011

Uh... easier than normal. A lot easier than normal. But apparently it's a lot harder when you actually take it officially.

#1: Uh easy
#2: I bashed this with slopes (which works) but apparently the synthetic solution is really short... apparently this one was really easy though.
#3: Hmm, this apparently isn't that hard, but my solution only takes 1 page to write up, and I was expecting the solution to be a lot longer, so my solution might be wrong...

Outline

Consider finite differences, then prove that the differences are bounded, then subtract the two arithmetic progression you are given to get a third one, then use boundedness to show it's constant, then consider minimum and maximum difference, then using the first arithmetic progression you show that one of the ssi+1-ssi is minimal, one is maximal, use constantness to show minimal= maximal.

China

Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:04 am, by pythag011

Note: Chinese government censors facebook and other stuff

Currently in china.

Random problem (you might know the inspiration for this problem if you were at mop):

Let p be a prime that is 1 mod 10.

If (p-1)!(1-\frac{1}{6}+\frac{1}{11}\ldots - \frac{1}{p-5}) is congruent to (p-1)!(\frac{1}{3}-\frac{1}{8}+\frac{1}{13}\ldots - \frac{1}{p-3}) modulo p, then these numbers are also congruent to -1 times (p-1)!(\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{7}+\frac{1}{12}\ldots - \frac{1}{p-4}).

Also, how do you use linear algebra to solve differential equations?

mop is over

Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:49 am, by pythag011

Yay 60 apm...

Hmm, mop is over...

Also I can't figure out how to get mathematica using that letter from mop. Help?

mop

Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:41 pm, by pythag011

is essentially over.

Staying up whole night doing a certain thing with initials sc.

Hmm I got a coloring book from mop yay.

Which olympiads

Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:28 pm, by pythag011

ArE wE aLlOwEd To PoSt FrOm MoP?

Hensal's Lemma

Sun Jun 07, 2009 5:48 pm, by pythag011

What is it? Google/Search function doesn't return anything.

Hmm

Sat Jun 06, 2009 7:47 pm, by pythag011

Ceremony is tomorrow. Is there internet access at mop?

Darn

Fri Jun 05, 2009 5:38 pm, by pythag011

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