Teen Sequins 2022:
Arihant Jain, Age 15
Bio: Arihant Jain is a high school sophomore in the Bay Area. He started writing poetry in the summer of 2021, and since then he's become a fan of The New Yorker's prose. His work has been accepted in the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship, and is forthcoming in Gigantic Sequins. When he's not writing poetry you can catch him programming for algorithmic engineering competitions.
Boldfaced Boyfriend
Find an unordered pair of natural numbers a, b such that ab(a + b)
is not divisible by 7, but (a + b)7 − (a7 + b7) is divisible by 77.
Source: IMO, 1984
Find one pair of positive integers a, b such that ab(a + b)
is not divisible by holy perfection, but (a + b)joy − (ajoy + bjoy)
is divisible by total bliss.
Source: A loving man’s soul, 2000
Find one pair of positive integers a loving man, a beat boy such
that their love · their viewers
will never abide by holy perfection, but the viewers’
joy without the boys’ joy equals total bliss.
Source: America, 2015
Find our two boys crying tears of blood who lie
at white horizons waiting for justice. who reel their bodies
to marry each other. who lost their hopes
of a blissful life because we thought
perfection = man(1 + wo)
Source: Myself, 2022
(18, 1)
Boldfaced Boyfriend
Find an unordered pair of natural numbers a, b such that ab(a + b)
is not divisible by 7, but (a + b)7 − (a7 + b7) is divisible by 77.
Source: IMO, 1984
Find one pair of positive integers a, b such that ab(a + b)
is not divisible by holy perfection, but (a + b)joy − (ajoy + bjoy)
is divisible by total bliss.
Source: A loving man’s soul, 2000
Find one pair of positive integers a loving man, a beat boy such
that their love · their viewers
will never abide by holy perfection, but the viewers’
joy without the boys’ joy equals total bliss.
Source: America, 2015
Find our two boys crying tears of blood who lie
at white horizons waiting for justice. who reel their bodies
to marry each other. who lost their hopes
of a blissful life because we thought
perfection = man(1 + wo)
Source: Myself, 2022
(18, 1)