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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.
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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.
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#4 2005-12-25 20:01:46
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Re: Cayley Contest
What fun, John! So they will get two emails now?
Some nice questions in there.
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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
- mathsyperson
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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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