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#1 2005-12-24 10:00:25

siva.eas
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Cayley Contest

Will anyone here be writing the Cayley Contest for mathematics in the February of 2006?

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#2 2005-12-25 12:52:37

John E. Franklin
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Re: Cayley Contest

I just looked into old Cayley Contests and found that 1997 problem #15 had all four multiple choice answers incorrect, so I sent Waterloo an email.

http://www.cemc.uwaterloo.ca/english/contests/cayley.shtml

Woops, I made a mistake, I assumed the length of the integer was all zeros except for the
first digit, but actually their solution is right.  Oops.

Last edited by John E. Franklin (2005-12-25 13:00:54)


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#3 2005-12-25 16:31:32

Jai Ganesh
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Re: Cayley Contest

You can find all the information about the contests here in pdf.


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#4 2005-12-25 20:01:46

MathsIsFun
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Re: Cayley Contest

What fun, John! So they will get two emails now?

Some nice questions in there.


"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..."  - Leon M. Lederman

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#5 2005-12-26 10:14:55

siva.eas
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Re: Cayley Contest

Just curious are you taking the Cayley Contest by any chance since you are interested enough to try some of the problem? John E. Franklin

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#6 2005-12-26 11:04:09

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Re: Cayley Contest

I'd guess not. The Cayley contest is for Year 10 people, and I seem to remember John E. Franklin being a considerable amount older. Sorry if I'm wrong, John.


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It wanted to be normal.

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#7 2005-12-27 06:26:27

John E. Franklin
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Re: Cayley Contest

Yes, I sent them a second email telling of my mistake on problem #15, 1997.
mathsyperson is right, I'm in my late 30's.
I simply was trying out some of the problems I found on the internet at the
forementioned address in post #2 of this thread.


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