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The Putnam reply is one of the great moments in Internet commenting history IMHO.

• Mandatum 12y ago
  The followup is the icing on the cake, "Only once?" > Yes, only once. But I actually consider my first score on the Putnam (53, ranked 53.5th in North America) to be my most impressive performance on the Putnam, considering that I was only 14 years old at the time.
• lemming 12y ago
  It's one of my favourite comments ever.
• cperciva 12y ago
  Oh, so this is why it suddenly popped up again in my twitter feed... I'll say here what I posted there a moment ago: Seven years after making a fool of myself on Hacker News, I wonder if my epitaph will be "Yes, I won the Putnam".
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