What is Putnam? All i know is that it is a mathematics competition

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What is Putnam? All i know is that it is a mathematics competition. Is it international? Who can do it? How can one do it? What credit does one get from doing it?

 

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Information can be found http://math.scu.edu/putnam/" [Broken]: .
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