Counting Tigers in the World’s Richest Math Competition
A probability question from the 2022 Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition
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8 min readNov 4, 2022
The Competition
Want to win USD $40,000? That was the prize money awarded to each of the four gold medallists in the 2022 Alibaba Global Math Competition. The qualifying round of the competition is open to anyone. I should warn you though, that medallists tend to be professional mathematicians and/or former IMO medallists!
