## Solution: The problem of the [last contest](https://www.palnet.io/puzzle/@quantumdeveloper/math-contest-10-1-1-sbi) was:  This is basically a system of 2 equations: 1: `x² + y = 1` 2: `x + y² = 1` From 1 we can derive: 3: `y = 1-x²` 3 in 2: `x+(1-x²)² = 1` | -1 `(x-1)+(1-x²)² = 0` → x₁ = 1 `x⁴ - 2x² + 1 + x - 1 = 0` `x⁴ - 2x² + x = 0` → x₂ = 0 ↓ `x³ - 2x + 1 = 0` | ÷(x-1). This can be done because x₁ = 1 is an already known 0 `x² + x - 1 = 0` → `x₃₋₄ = -½ ± √(¼ + 1) = -½ ± (√5)/2` → x₃ = -½ + (√5)/2; x₄ = -½ - (√5)/2 Using equation 3 that yields the following 4 solutions: `(1; 0)` `(0; 1)` `(-½ + (√5)/2; -½ + (√5)/2)` `(-½ - (√5)/2; -½ - (√5)/2)` *↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓* ### What is your chance of winning: `p(You Win) = 1/n`, `n = number of entries` *↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓* ### List of participants with their entries: Name | solutions found | comment - | - | - @golddeck |`(0, 1)` `(1, 0)`| @masoom | all four(with rounding errors) |first complete entry → 1 SBI @mmunited | Nothing but a few formulas for x and y | Accepted anyway due to low number of complete entries. *↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓* Winner draw:  That makes 1 SBI for @masoom and @golddeck:  *↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓* ### The next contest starts tomorrow. Don't miss it!
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tonimontana | 0 | 948,403,800 | 100% | ||
enforcer48 | 0 | 37,291,970,638 | 15% | ||
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quantumdeveloper | 0 | 3,519,645,870 | 100% | ||
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onecent | 0 | 2,902,654,389 | 9.9% | ||
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Thanks!
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quantumdeveloper | 0 | 3,544,914,737 | 100% |
I wonder why so few people are participating (0, 1) (1, 0) were really not super hard to find.
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I don't know. Why didn't you participate then?
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I scrolled down too far and saw the answers so I didn't feel like participating anymore because it would have been cheating. But there odds to win here are much better than a lot of the other contest even if you only have half of the solutions. I guess everyone just hates math :D
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