Programs for Purple Comet Math Meet

Question

I am going to be participating in the high school division of the Purple Comet Math Meet. Since computers are allowed to be used on the competition, I was wondering if anyone can recommend software/programs that I can use to solve these types of questions.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I don't know anything about how these kind of contests work. But seeing the problems for last years, these came to mind:

1. Some kind of good calculator, always useful.
2. If you have some programming knowledge, and you are allowed to use it in the competition, then for sure I would have my IDE of choice. Some of the questions are programmable (for example, the counting questions, although I am sure it's not the idea, you can bruteforce without much trouble in Java or C++ o whatever you like.)