This is a really famously tough maths competition. Everyone entering is really good. and I had not realised how low scoring it was.

Top score you could get is 120 and best was 90, 87 then 81

Python code at https://colab.research.google.com/gist/cavedave/c8dc42db722e5b0bdd51895722ce0ea0/putnam.ipynb

Data from https://maa.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2024-William-Lowell-Putnam-Competition-Announcement-of-Winners.pdf

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  1. idk if others had this thought, but in you 3rd slide i thought “NA” meant “not available”, but you probably meant “no answer”. again, could just be me, but it would be nice to have that spelled out since “NA” is a common acronym with a different meaning

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