Question
Functions with this property do not exist in Pessiland, the “worst of all possible worlds” according to Russell Impagliazzo’s “five worlds” paper. Miklós Ajtai names a family of functions proposed to have this property based on the short integer solution problem. A theorem that guarantees the existence of a hardcore predicate for every function with this property is named for Goldreich and Levin, who also proposed enumerating all computable Turing machines to construct a (*) “universal” function with this property. Modular squaring is part of a collection of functions thought to have this property named for Rabin, whose existence would imply that P ≠ NP. Multiplication has this property if factoring is “hard.” For 10 points, name this property possessed by functions ubiquitous in cryptography, which are easy to compute but difficult to invert. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 87.00 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 102.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 90.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | N | 5 | 40% | 0% | 40% | 132.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 0% | 0% | 33% | 0.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 67% | 33% | 17% | 68.75 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 0% | 0% | 67% | 0.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Aditya Gangrade | Pahkin' the Ahgo | Banned from ARGOS | 18 | 15 |
Andrew Hunter | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | 18 | 15 |
Dan Ni | hawk two of | Notre Dame | 55 | 15 |
Anderson Wang | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 66 | 15 |
Henry Cafaro | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | BHSU ReFantazio | 88 | 10 |
Omer Keskin | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Limp Franceskit | 91 | -5 |
Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford+ | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 92 | 10 |
Jacob Puthipiroj | Northeast by Northwestern | Clown Squad | 97 | -5 |
Eric Mukherjee | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | UBC | 101 | 10 |
Swapnil Garg | Berkeley | Cry of the Common Loon | 103 | 10 |
Henry Bon | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 103 | 10 |
Natan Holtzman | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | Thompson et al. | 111 | -5 |
Billy Busse | BHSU Rebirth | WashU | 114 | 10 |
Agnijo Banerjee | Simple Vibes | Defying Suavity | 114 | -5 |
Walter Zhang | Import Pandas | |madam| | 125 | 10 |
Jordan Brownstein | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | Hu up Jinning they Tao | 128 | 10 |
David Bass | just one more half-dot bro | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 130 | -5 |
Coby Tran | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | Clown Senpais | 133 | 0 |
Rachel Bentham | Cambridge | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 133 | 0 |
Daoud Jackson | Defying Suavity | Simple Vibes | 133 | 0 |
Albert Zhang | Walston et. al. | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 133 | 0 |
Zaid Asif | 12 Litres of Green Tea | Walston et. al. | 133 | 0 |
Sky Hong | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | Cope is the thing with feathers | 133 | 0 |
Vinayak Singh Bhadoriya | Cope is the thing with feathers | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | 133 | 0 |
Conor Thompson | Thompson et al. | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | 133 | 0 |