I know a guy from the Physics Olympiads that was a mobile library of past olympiads problems. I think you’re underestimating the level of weirdness you can find around. Maybe it’s still a fraction of the existing problems, but I’d estimate enough to cover non-redundant ones.
I would expect them to find that at least a couple of the problems were sufficiently similar to something they’ve seen that they could get the answer without too much creativity.
I’ve not been to the IMO but I’d bet this already happens from comments I overheard by people who have been.
I know a guy from the Physics Olympiads that was a mobile library of past olympiads problems. I think you’re underestimating the level of weirdness you can find around. Maybe it’s still a fraction of the existing problems, but I’d estimate enough to cover non-redundant ones.
I’ve not been to the IMO but I’d bet this already happens from comments I overheard by people who have been.