For Those of You Who Enjoy Puzzles

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The discussion revolves around sharing links to math puzzle resources and contests, with participants contributing various websites and expressing their opinions on the quality of these resources. The scope includes recreational mathematics and puzzle-solving.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant shares a link to a daily math problem on LiveJournal, noting that anonymous responses are allowed.
  • Another participant expresses appreciation for the shared link and contributes an additional resource for math puzzles from Princeton University, mentioning varying difficulty levels.
  • A third participant highlights the Princeton link as one of the best encountered and shares another resource from a different university, mentioning a contest that offers TI-89 calculators as prizes.
  • A later reply questions whether residents outside the US and Canada can participate in the mentioned contest.

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Participants generally agree on the value of the shared links, but the question regarding contest eligibility introduces an area of uncertainty that remains unresolved.

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For those of you who enjoy puzzles, someone on http://livejournal.com that features a new math problem posted daily.

Anonymous responses are permitted, but LJ accounts are now free and it doesn't take long to sign up. Take your pick.

Mike Nolan
http://mike.zx.ath.cx
 
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Thanks for the link. :wink:
 
Great link. :smile:

Here's another maths puzzles link to add (can't remember where I came across this but it was a few years ago). Includes puzzles of varying degrees of difficulty depending on the level of your mathematical knowledge:

http://www.princeton.edu/~mathclub/puzzles.html
 
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Wow, I never knew the Princeton one existed. That's one of the best I've come across.

There are quite a few links at http://math.smsu.edu/~les , while we're sharing. The one at Ole Miss gives out TI-89s, if you're interested.
 
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Wow, I never knew the Princeton one existed. That's one of the best I've come across.

There are quite a few links at http://math.smsu.edu/~les , while we're sharing. The one at Ole Miss gives out TI-89s, if you're interested.
can residents outside us and Canada compete as well in this contest?
 
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