27772nd poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 10)

thank you Orange I hope so for you too!!

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oh i took semester 1 of real analysis in fall 2024. to be clear. didn’t have it. didn’t need it.

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huh
htbthbthbthbt I have yet to take topology so maybe I’m overestimating how much real analysis is useful

also IDK if I’m going to be able to take it because it barely runs

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ive heard good things about topology but its outside my weelhouse even as a math minor

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I went to the last class of topology to see the presentations and everybody retconned me in yhere so now everybody thinks I took topology

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Let’s be real topology is probably out of my wheelhouse…

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the whole point about topology is getting weird about what open sets are anyway

half the concepts of real analysis aren’t even useful in topologies where there’s no concept of distance (most of them)

i did struggle a bit when they started tying in epsilon-delta continuity though

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whats t500

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top 500

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top 500 in what area. how many are taking it. i need context

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er like 5000? it’s college math proofs

the median score is like a 1 lol out of 120

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putnam competition

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…i see

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and over 1000 of them got 0 points so. it’s pretty tough

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the median score used to be 0, you kids have it easy these days

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on an unrelated note:

i made a joke to my bf that if he ever wanted to jump from a high roof, he should look at a photo of me from his wallet

and then he said ā€œwhy? to jump faster?ā€

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now it can be 2!!! wowowowowowowow

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you people scare me

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did it actually used to be 0 btw
I’ve been told they’ve gradually made the test harder over time
so problems from like 10-15 years ago are on average significantly easier (which has matched my experience with them in the putnam archive)

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THAT SOUNDS SO FUCKING AWESOME??? im going to purdue

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