About the Rules & Moderation category (Part 1)

[benguinedparbecue]

how many times has tutuu almost rediscovered this thread from first principles now?

[May]

So many times

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@May

It was “what’s the smallest n-gon such that the measure of the angle from pt 1 to 20 to 13 is less than 60 degrees”. Mr Top 500 Putnam tried to explain it to us but he misread the question and ended up explaining it techniclaly wrong so we all won (he was doing the questions all on his own, we collectively win if he gets the questions wrong or we finish before him)

does it have to be a regular n-gon

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I mean. presumably if its not a regular n-gon the answer is just 20 so yeah

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@May

It was “what’s the smallest n-gon such that the measure of the angle from pt 1 to 20 to 13 is less than 60 degrees”. Mr Top 500 Putnam tried to explain it to us but he misread the question and ended up explaining it techniclaly wrong so we all won (he was doing the questions all on his own, we collectively win if he gets the questions wrong or we finish before him)

is Mr Top 500 Putnam the same as the complex analysis enjoyer guy

[May]

Different people, he doesn’t have the shirt. He’s the one with “I am not a rational money maxxer” though

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@May

It was “what’s the smallest n-gon such that the measure of the angle from pt 1 to 20 to 13 is less than 60 degrees”. Mr Top 500 Putnam tried to explain it to us but he misread the question and ended up explaining it techniclaly wrong so we all won (he was doing the questions all on his own, we collectively win if he gets the questions wrong or we finish before him)

I think that this ends up being a problem about n evenly spaced points on a circle
not sure how to solve it from there though

[Litten]

I KNOW I JUST GOT A 100 on the latest quiz let’s go control systems

[Litten]

It was like physics but not

[Atlas]

conratw

[Litten]

I was so confused for a little bit because the blocks had wheels. I haven’t done physics in a while but basically we had to write equations of motion

This isn’t the problem but there were three blocks and they were all on wheel. I was confused until I realized he said to ignore damping effect from friction

[Litten]

I was prepared to be so sad by him tricking us by putting wheels until I realized it made it easier

[May]

My memory of his explanation: the angle a side takes up in a regular n-gon is 360/n, we want the arc between these points to be 60 degrees. The arc between pt 1 and 13 has 12 sides in it, something something “actually half that”, 12/2 * 360/n < 60, 36 < n, n=37

[May]

The other first questions were way easier to my eye…

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@May

My memory of his explanation: the angle a side takes up in a regular n-gon is 360/n, we want the arc between these points to be 60 degrees. The arc between pt 1 and 13 has 12 sides in it, something something “actually half that”, 12/2 * 360/n < 60, 36 < n, n=37

mmmmmmmmmmm
I get the part up to “actually half that”
I’m… assuming this has something to due with that double angle theorem on a circle that I have barely any memory of

[May]

I got no damn clue either. That’s what I’m missing too

[Atlas]

unfortunately the very reason i’m here right now is that i was trying to do work but was too exhausted to think so i can’t help

[Litten]

should I say hair every morning

[Atlas]

please don’t.