Putnam 1998 A2
- Session A
Let be any arc of the unit circle lying entirely in the first quadrant. Let be the area of the region lying below and above the -axis and let be the area of the region lying to the right of the -axis and to the left of . Prove that depends only on the arc length, and not on the position, of .
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Human solution Solution 1 by Manjul Bhargava, Kiran Kedlaya and Lenny Ng
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