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Tanya Khovanova has a paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556 https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556 with a list of some more of these problems with easy solutions that
by OscarCunningham 7y ago
Tanya Khovanova has a paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556 https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556 with a list of some more of these problems with easy solutions that are hard to find. She calls them "Jewish Problems" because they were used by USSR universities to discriminate against Jewish applicants. The applicants would fail to solve them but the university would justifiably be able to claim they were easy.
- dxbydt 7y agoHey, thank you so much for posting this! I picked a random problem ( the one on logs) in that paper and solved it under 1 minute. I feel like a million bucks now!