Yesterday was the nationwide 71st William Newell Putnam Mathematical competition. (More info here). It started at 8:30 am here in the Rocky Mountains, and it was off to a riveting start: opening the manilla envelope with the first set of six questions, and then reading…rereading, stopping for a minute for a breather, then reading again. Then drawing some pictures to try and see if we were understanding…
So the problems were pretty hard, I expected that. Somewhere around half of the participants actually don’t score a single point. I did feel like I understood and gave a good effort at a few of the problems. A1, B2, and B3 specifically. We’ll see what they tell us in March though.
I’m excited for the time being to see what the solutions are, they should be posting them tonight.
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