Easter Eggs
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Easter Eggs!
Easter Eggs are hidden features of movies, websites, TV shows, video games, or other media. The first Easter Egg to ever be made was in 1980, in the Atari 2600 game, Adventure.
Known Easter Eggs
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Jeremy Hates Somebody
When you go to a class and click on “Report Error”, you can find “jeremy-he-hate-me” when Inspecting the page. Discovered by Lionking212.
Steps to Reproduce:
- Go to a class page
- Click on "Report Error" on the homework tab
- Inspect Element
- Search for "jeremy"
MANGLED SQUARE ROOTS
When you go to a homework problem, if you type sqrta+sqrtb the result shows as \sqrta+THISISAMANGLEDSQUAREROOTb. If you type THISISAMANGLEDSQUAREROOTa the result is \sqrta. Discovered by wamofan.
Steps to Reproduce:
- Go to Alcumus
- Click "Play"
- Type "sqrta+sqrtb" into the answer box
- Type "THISISAMANGLEDSQUAREROOTa"
Note: this also works with the input "sqrta+sqrtc". Or "sqrta+sqrtgmaas" for that matter.
BTS April Fools
On April Fools day 2022, in every class’s homepage there was a link saying “Extra Credit Opportunity!”. If you click that, you get a page with a BTS choreography video.
Unable to be reproduced. EDIT: This can only be reproduced on april fools.
Color Changing April Fools
On April Fools day 2024, clicking the "Extra Credit Opportunity!" link in each class's homepage made the colors on the page change.
This can also only be reproduced on April Fools.
PickleRick
When you click inspect on any AoPS page, and go to sources and go to raven.min.js, it shows {return newRequest("pickleRick". You will have to scroll to the left a lot, so if you just do cmd+f or ctrl+f and search pickleRick, you will see it. Discovered by llr.
Steps to Reproduce:
- Go to any AoPS page
- Inspect
- Go to raven.min.js on the Sources tab
- Search for "pickleRick"
42
If you go to https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/category-admin/88, or the info of the AoPS Blogroll, you see a message saying 42, or life the universe and everything. Discovered by Andrew2019.
Steps to Reproduce:
- Go to the AoPS Blogroll
- Click the info button
- Wait for the 42 message to show.
Complex Tomfoolery
In Introduction to Algebra A, for week 15, the homework problems are numbered 1+i, 2+i, 3+i… instead of 1, 2, 3…
Steps to Reproduce:
- Go to the Introduction to Algebra A class if you are enrolled
- Click on the Homework tab
- Click on "Week 15"
Almight Ruler GMAAS
There is an AoPS wiki page for gmaas, Gmaas is too good.
nsato is amazing
There is an AoPS wiki page for the fundamental theorem of Sato, https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Fundamental_Theorem_of_Sato.
Old AoPS
https://artofproblemsolving.com/nostalgia shows how AoPS used to look in 2003.
