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neongreen on Oct 22, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to ...

Btw — how hard are these problems nowadays? Back then, 8 top Soviet students solved only half of them in a month — has anyone tried giving them to students now?

cooljoseph on Oct 23, 2024 [–]

They seem a lot easier than USAMO problems, or even Putnam problems. I suspect that top students nowadays could easily solve them all in a day.

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