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Putnam 1998 A2

  • Session A

Let ss be any arc of the unit circle lying entirely in the first quadrant. Let AA be the area of the region lying below ss and above the xx-axis and let BB be the area of the region lying to the right of the yy-axis and to the left of ss. Prove that A+BA+B depends only on the arc length, and not on the position, of ss.

Curated text Kedlaya Putnam archive. Quoted with source.

Solutions

Human solution Solution 1 by Manjul Bhargava, Kiran Kedlaya and Lenny Ng

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