I started a little math club in Bangalore • Hacker News Board

Re: I started a little math club in Bangalore

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Post by dgfitz » Fri, May 30, 2025, 1:26 AM UTC

Why has this been on the front page all day?

Re: I started a little math club in Bangalore

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Post by ping00 » Fri, May 30, 2025, 2:59 AM UTC

Good luck Vivek, this looks really nice! I was in Bangalore for the first time this Feb and had a great time. You should check out Mecca cafe, it's thoda grimy but a total vibe.

Re: I started a little math club in Bangalore

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Post by ashutosh-mishra » Fri, May 30, 2025, 4:01 AM UTC

Best! Great way to connect with interesting people!

What's your criteria for letting people in? Like what should be the minimum level of maths skills they should already have?

Re: I started a little math club in Bangalore

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Post by wanderingmind » Fri, May 30, 2025, 4:26 AM UTC

Awesome initiative. For people not physically in Bangalore, maybe start a discord and we can asynchronously try to work through problems and get support

Re: I started a little math club in Bangalore

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, May 30, 2025, 6:42 AM UTC

dgfitz wrote: post #21

Why has this been on the front page all day?

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Re: I started a little math club in Bangalore

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Post by random_coder » Fri, May 30, 2025, 7:54 AM UTC

dmd wrote: post #20

No matter how many times I do number 20, I end up with 615. Am I wrong, or is the solution sheet wrong?

I think you're right and the given answer of 596 is wrong. It's 380 m-w, 190 m-m, 45 w-w handshakes, so 615 in total.

Re: I started a little math club in Bangalore

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Post by trueismywork » Fri, May 30, 2025, 12:11 PM UTC

Rope in people from TIFR and IISC and ISI, they have a lot of activities going on like this.

Re: I started a little math club in Bangalore

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Post by dmd » Fri, May 30, 2025, 12:19 PM UTC

random_coder wrote: post #26

dmd wrote: post #20

No matter how many times I do number 20, I end up with 615. Am I wrong, or is the solution sheet wrong?

I think you're right and the given answer of 596 is wrong. It's 380 m-w, 190 m-m, 45 w-w handshakes, so 615 in total.

Yeah. It's not even the only wrong answer on the page, which is troubling.

Re: I started a little math club in Bangalore

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Post by scaradim » Fri, May 30, 2025, 2:24 PM UTC

Just to motivate your team: a mathematician just became the President of Romania this month - https://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=1571 :-)

Re: I started a little math club in Bangalore

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Post by thuruv » Fri, May 30, 2025, 3:46 PM UTC

Kudos., Personalizing problems to familiar places hitting a nostalgic sweet spot for me.. Reminds me how much fun it used to be and creative math gets when you’re bouncing ideas around..