"Mathematics?" Xia Ruofei was slightly taken aback. He could not help but ask, "Don't tell me it's the chicken and the rabbit in the same cage?"
He knew that the level of ancient mathematics in Huaxia was not very high. Of course, the development of mathematics in the world was still in its infancy. Even the Nine-Chapter Arithmetic only appeared in the Western Han Dynasty, and Layman Yuntai should have lived in the Qin Dynasty.
Layman Yuntai was also taken aback. He asked, "What do you mean by the chicken and the rabbit in the same cage?"
Xia Ruofei thought about it. The chicken and the rabbit in the same cage should first be recorded in Sun Tzu's Mathematical Classic, and this mathematical classic appeared about 1,500 years ago, far later than Layman Yuntai's era. Therefore, it was normal that he did not know about the classic problem of the chicken and the rabbit in the same cage.
Therefore, Xia Ruofei said, "I'm just giving you an example. The problem is like this: Today, there are a chicken and a rabbit in the same cage. There are thirty-five heads above and ninety-four feet below …"
Xia Ruofei explained the problem of the chicken and the rabbit in the same cage, and then asked with a smile, "Don't tell me the mathematics problem that Venerable Yang Shan studied is this kind of problem?"
Layman Yuntai laughed. "How can such a simple problem be called mathematics? Venerable Yang Shan's knowledge is very broad, and the mathematics part is also very profound, including the Pythagorean observation method, the Heavenly Origin Method, the Great Derivation Method, the Erasure Method, the Stacking Method, and so on … "
Xia Ruofei was dumbfounded. He could not help but use the search engine on the computer to search for the mathematical methods that Layman Yuntai mentioned. He could not help but be secretly amazed.
What Layman Yuntai said, when translated into the language of modern mathematics, was the Pythagorean theorem, higher-order equations, first-order congruence arrays, higher-order interpolation, and higher-order arithmetic series summation …
Even though the content wasn't particularly profound in modern mathematics, in the context of the Qin Dynasty, this was simply a supernatural technique.
In Xia Ruofei's memory, this content did not appear until the Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty. However, a senior cultivator who lived in the Qin Dynasty had actually studied such deep content so many years in advance.
One had to know that the development of a theory wasn't just a flash of inspiration from a genius. It had to be the contribution of a hundred flowers blooming together. Only then could the development of a theory be pushed forward.
Since this Venerable Yang Shan lived in the Qin Dynasty, or even in an earlier era, he naturally had no reference materials for these complicated mathematical problems. So, it was basically certain that he was the one who came up with them.
That was amazing.
Xia Ruofei also put away his contempt for the ancient people and asked humbly, "Senior Yuntai, does this Reverend Yang Shan have any specific opinions on how to solve the Rising Dragon Medallion?"
Yuntai said, "Senior Yang Shan also studied the Rising Dragon Badge for a short period of time, about one or two years! But he soon gave up. He concluded that the secret of the Rising Dragon Medallion lies in these floating point patterns, and that the solution of these patterns is related to mathematics. "
Xia Ruofei asked curiously, "Since Reverend Yang Shan has concluded that the secret of the floating point patterns needs to be solved through mathematics, why didn't he continue? Is he not interested in the Rising Dragon Medallion at all? "
"No!" Yuntai said. "Reverend Yang Shan has publicly said that even if his attainments in mathematics were ten times more profound, it would still be very difficult for him to solve the secret of the Rising Dragon Medallion, because there is a limit to human power, and the complexity of the floating point patterns is beyond the scope of human power. So, he wisely chose to give up, lest he waste a lot of time and energy only to end up with nothing in the end!"
A thought flashed through Xia Ruofei's mind, and he almost immediately guessed the situation at that time. Reverend Yang Shan's attainments in mathematics were indeed beyond that of his era, and it was very likely that he had deduced that the amount of calculation needed to completely solve the secret of the floating point patterns was very frightening, so he gave up directly.
After all, even if Reverend Yang Shan's knowledge was beyond that of his era, and his mental force cultivation base had reached a terrifying level that even Xia Ruofei could not understand, in terms of pure calculation ability, he could never be compared with a supercomputer.
Perhaps Reverend Yang Shan could not see any hope of solving the problem, so he gave up decisively.
But, this amount of calculation was never a problem for a supercomputer.
In other words, the biggest problem Reverend Yang Shan encountered two or three thousand years ago was no longer a problem now.
Therefore, Xia Ruofei was not disappointed when he heard the news, but was very happy instead.
It indirectly confirmed the direction of their solution, and the conclusion came from an Leaving Aperture expert with a very high level of mathematics. Naturally, it was more convincing.
Xia Ruofei was even more excited. "Senior Yuntai, do you still have any of Reverend Yang Shan's opinions about the Rising Dragon Medallion? Or, did he leave any books or writings behind? "
"There should be some of Reverend Yang Shan's legacy left behind, but not much about the Rising Dragon Medallion," Yuntai said with a wry smile. "After all, Senior Yang Shan only briefly studied the Rising Dragon Medallion before he gave up, and he never mentioned it again. It was only by chance that I heard the seniors of my sect talking about it at a gathering where all the sects discussed the Rising Dragon Medallion together. "
Yuntai paused for a moment, then continued, "At that time, everyone took Reverend Yang Shan's opinion as a topic of conversation after dinner …"
"Why?" Xia Ruofei was puzzled. "Reverend Yang Shan's attainments in mathematics were so high, and his cultivation base was also very high. Logically speaking, everyone should pay more attention to his opinion!"
"If everyone followed Reverend Yang Shan's advice, then they would simply stop trying to solve the Rising Dragon Medallion, because even Reverend Yang Shan thought it was hopeless! In fact, who could resist such a temptation? In our era, there were many legends about the Rising Dragon Medallion, and some of them were so tempting that even Leaving Aperture experts were tempted. "
"In addition …" Yuntai said, "Among those who studied the Rising Dragon Medallion all year round, there were a few whose cultivation bases were on par with Reverend Yang Shan's, and they had all invested a lot of time and energy into it. Naturally, they would not give up easily just because of a few words from Senior Yang Shan. Besides, at that time, it could be considered a competition between different sects. Reverend Yang Shan insisted that solving the medallion from the perspective of mathematics was the correct path, while some seniors had been trying the solution you mentioned before, which was that each floating point corresponded to a character. They kept trying various combinations of characters, and some of them persisted for hundreds of years … "
Xia Ruofei was secretly shocked when he heard that. The calculation of a supercomputer in less than four hours required the efforts of Gold Core, Nascent Soul, and Nascent Divinity experts for hundreds of years, and they could not complete it even after hundreds of years.
From this perspective, it was really hard to say which was better between a modern technological civilization and a cultivation civilization!
As the saying went, nothing was absolute, and this was exactly the situation.
Everyone had their shortcomings, and everyone had their strengths.
Xia Ruofei decided to modify the algorithm immediately and try to use the remaining time to run the program again.
This time, he was more confident than the last time.
Just then, Mu Sheng came over with Xia Ruofei's laptop and said with a wry smile, "Little brother Xia Ruofei, I … I'll give this laptop back to you."
Xia Ruofei felt a bit strange and asked, "Senior Mu, you don't want to read it anymore?"
Mu Sheng definitely couldn't finish reading the remaining 750 documents in such a short time.
"I'm dizzy, so I don't want to read it anymore! I don't want to read it anymore! Everyone has checked it together, so I'm afraid I won't find anything new … "
Xia Ruofei nodded with a smile and said, "Then please take a rest, Senior Mu. I'll modify the algorithm as soon as possible and try to use the remaining time to do the calculation again."
"Okay! Then I'll have to trouble you, Little Brother Xia! "Mu Sheng said," I hope there'll be a good result this time, haha! "
In fact, Mu Sheng and the others were already used to failure. If they really didn't gain anything this time, they wouldn't feel too disappointed. At most, they would feel a little disappointed and continue to work hard to find a way to crack it.
Mu Sheng didn't want to disturb Xia Ruofei's coding, so after returning the laptop, he sat down on the sofa on the other side and chatted with Liu Mansha in a low voice.
Xia Ruofei looked at the laptop, which still had plenty of power, and his heart skipped a beat.
He first put the laptop into the cave in the Ring-Tu space's Mountain Sea Territory.
His action didn't attract the attention of the others in the lounge — they must have thought that Xia Ruofei put the laptop into his storage magic treasure. This was a very normal behavior, and they would have done the same if they were in his shoes.
Then, Xia Ruofei communicated with Layman Yuntai through telepathy, "Senior Yuntai, I've got my laptop back. There's a high-definition scan of the floating point pattern in it, as well as the top 1,000 possible combinations of characters in the previous text scheme. If you're interested, you can take a look!"
Layman Yuntai said, "I'm interested! Of course I'm interested! I have nothing to do anyway! But … the laptop you mentioned … How do I use this thing? "
Layman Yuntai was only left with his spiritual body. Although he could use his spiritual body to control objects in the outside world, he was now inside the mysterious ore space, which made it even more difficult to do so. Moreover, this kind of control would definitely cause damage to his spiritual body.
It would be extremely difficult to replenish his spiritual energy after it was used up.
Therefore, unless he had no other choice, Layman Yuntai wouldn't use his spiritual body to control objects in the outside world.
Of course, Xia Ruofei could also use his spiritual power to control the laptop remotely.
However, the most important thing for him now was to modify and perfect the algorithm, so he couldn't be distracted by helping Layman Yuntai open and close pictures or flip pages of documents.
Therefore, Xia Ruofei directly called Xia Qing to the cave's stone room.
The cave's stone room was absolutely forbidden to anyone other than the owner of the Ring-Tu space.
Of course, with Xia Ruofei's permission, Xia Qing could enter the cave's stone room.
Simple computer operations were not high-tech, and Xia Qing learned them very quickly. After a few minutes, she learned how to use the touchpad to control the mouse, open and close documents, pictures, and other basic operations. Naturally, she learned them very quickly.
Xia Ruofei communicated with Xia Qing through his spiritual power and taught him these basic operations as quickly as possible.
Then, Xia Ruofei left Xia Qing in the cave's stone room to act as Layman Yuntai's temporary "secretary".
Xia Ruofei said to Layman Yuntai, "Senior Yuntai, take your time. If you find anything new, please let me know!"
"Got it! Go do your work! "Layman Yuntai said casually." Little puppet! First, help me open the high-definition scan that Xia Qing mentioned. Let me see how clear it is in high-definition! "
Xia Ruofei smiled and retracted his spiritual power, no longer actively sensing what was happening in the cave's stone room. Of course, if Xia Qing or Layman Yuntai contacted him, he would receive it immediately.
Xia Ruofei's fingers moved quickly on his laptop, deleting sections of code and adding new ones.
The algorithm in his mind was implemented bit by bit through the code.
This algorithm tested one's ability to think logically, especially when modifying the original algorithm, it was actually more difficult.
However, Xia Ruofei had already organized his thoughts, so he didn't need to think much. Moreover, his fingers were extremely fast, so the code on the laptop kept rolling up. Ordinary people couldn't even see what was displayed on the screen.
Even so, Xia Ruofei spent almost an hour to modify the algorithm.
He called Chen Xuan over, and the two of them spent about half an hour to recheck the entire algorithm.
Xia Ruofei was the clearest about the logic of the entire program, so he explained the purpose of his code to Chen Xuan in a low voice as he flipped through the code, so that Chen Xuan could understand it faster and save as much time as possible.
During the process, the two of them made minor adjustments to two or three flawed areas.
In reality, the safer way would be to run the program in a simulated environment for a period of time, verify the stability of the program, and then run it on the supercomputer.
However, time didn't allow for it. Xia Ruofei and Chen Xuan rushed and barely finished checking the algorithm. There were less than four hours left.
If they wasted any more time, they might not have enough time to complete the calculation process.
Therefore, Xia Ruofei quickly re-encrypted the program, then copied it to the already cleared portable hard drive, and walked quickly to the control room of the computer room.
"He Gong, I've made adjustments to the algorithm. Please help us run it again!" Xia Ruofei knocked on the door of the control room and handed the portable hard drive to the technician on duty.
Although the technician was a little surprised, the leader had told him last night to fully cooperate with Xia Ruofei. Moreover, the computer time hadn't run out yet, and the equipment was still idle. Why should he be the bad guy and refuse Xia Ruofei's reasonable request?
"No problem!" The technician took the portable hard drive and said, "Please wait a moment, I'll run the program, then send the portable hard drive to you!"
"Okay! Thank you, He Gong! "Xia Ruofei said.
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