I made science magic

Chapter 177 Zeno who can never catch up with the tortoise

With a dark face, Tik put the [Ring of Secret Magic] on his index finger, and then did not go back, but found a seat in the front hall and sat down.

It was a very strange feeling. His perspective seemed to be divided into two. In front of him was an extremely spacious exhibition hall with rows of bookshelves displayed inside, like a complicated maze.

Tik soon realized that this should be a realm made of pure magic, but what surprised him was that everything here was a little too real.

The oxygen you breathe, the breeze blowing, and the white marble tiles under your feet...

If he hadn't known that he was just a mixture of magic and spiritual power, he would have doubted whether he was still in the real world.

Tik walked to a bookshelf in amazement and caressed the stacked books. Even the texture of the paper pages could be perfectly simulated here.

He casually pulled out a book - "Basics and Research of Mathematics Olympiad", opened the title page, and wrote in black ink. "Mathematics Olympiad is a subject that studies concepts such as quantity, structure, change, space and information.

It is a general method for strictly describing and deducing the abstract structures and patterns of things, and can be used to solve any real and magical problems..."

"Is this the Mathematical Olympiad?" Tik murmured to himself. He had been exposed to the Mathematical Olympiad for two or three months, but this was the first time he saw such a precise and generalized explanation.

The page of the book in his hand suddenly shook, and then automatically levitated in Tik's astonished eyes, and floated in a certain direction.

Tik paused for a moment, and then thought that this should guide him to the meeting place.

Passing through rows of high walls made of bookshelves, Tik soon arrived at the center of the entire library, where several colleagues he knew who were proficient in mathematics and alchemy were also here.

Eleven people were gathering together to talk. One of the wizards laughed and said after seeing Tik walking over.

"I didn't expect that the last person would be you, Tik. I have to say that you came a little late. We have been waiting for you for a long time."

"I'm sorry, Alva, I thought you would be slower, so I took the time to take a long nap last night and take care of my appearance, but I didn't want to miss the moment." Tik raised his eyebrows and spoke freely.

responded.

"You are very leisurely and leisurely. You just arrived at the end..." Naturally, Alva didn't believe a word of Tik's words. He made a mocking insinuation and continued to speak without bothering to expose it.

"We were just discussing the second Mathematical Olympiad question, but I don't know how long it took you and what method you used to calculate the result?"

Tik responded thoughtfully. "This question is actually easy to solve. You can get the answer by just changing your thinking.

Since the first monkey found that the total number of peaches could not be divided equally, and there was one more, then we might as well assume that if they were given four more peaches at the beginning, then each monkey would be able to divide the peaches equally.

This makes the problem much simpler. The peach has been divided five times in total, and each time it can be divided into five equal parts, so the total number of peaches is five to the fifth power, 3125! Just subtract it again

Go to the first four and you’ll get the final answer!”

Seven of the eleven people present nodded. Tick's method was the same as theirs, and the remaining few compared it with their own problem-solving ideas.

"As for solving this problem, it took me about five... no... four hours." Tik said with a slight guilt.

"It only took me three hours and twenty-seven minutes!" Alva said proudly. At the internal seminar of the Alchemy Association last year, the new magic circle he proposed was found by Tik to find many loopholes.

This time we finally got a win.

Tik looked at the other people quite depressed and found that they basically solved the problem in about three to five hours, which meant that most people were faster than him.

"Two hours!" Ellison, who had been silent, suddenly interrupted.

The wizards present looked at Ellison, as if they were looking up at a mountain.

This question is not that difficult, but for Alvaji people who have never systematically studied the Mathematical Olympiad in the past, it is not easy to turn around in a short while.

How could it be so fast?

Tik couldn't help but ask a few more questions, and then he discovered that Ellison was able to get the results so quickly not because of his own efforts, but because he mobilized dozens of apprentices to work with him to solve the problems.

Got the answer using exhaustive method!

Others have also had more or less exchanges and discussions with their colleagues.

After learning this, Tik was completely confused. These people didn't have martial ethics. No wonder they were all so fast!

In the end, he was the only one doing the questions honestly...

Just as Tik was cursing secretly in his heart, the entire magic space shook heavily, and then countless thick books floated out from the bookshelf, the pages flew apart, and the lines of complex arithmetic symbols seemed to come alive, leaving

Without the shackles of books, it surrounds the void and outlines three-dimensional patterns.

"Welcome to the sea of ​​mathematics..."

With the sound of a deep and deep voice, these restless knowledge gradually calmed down.

Tik turned his head and saw a wizard with curly hair and brown robes walking towards him.

The scattered books returned to their original positions under the influence of some kind of force, leaving only those strange symbols still surrounding the void, as if unwilling to return to the cage built by the books.

"You can call me Leibniz!" the wizard introduced politely.

"Master Leibniz." Tik and others immediately saluted respectfully. They all maintained enough respect for a great wizard and a pioneer in arcane mathematics.

"I heard Mr. Lin En say that you came to us specifically to solve a difficult problem that is plaguing the world of Olympiad mathematics?" Alva was not so polite and took the lead in asking. This is also a question that everyone is extremely curious about.

"That's right!" Leibniz nodded, and then explained. "The cause of the matter was that I made a bet with another wizard named Zeno. He was recently preparing to race a tortoise and let him

The opponent first runs a hundred meters, and then he sets off to catch up. He can run ten meters per second, while the turtle can only travel ten centimeters per second..."

"Zeno thought he could never catch the turtle, and I needed to prove he could!"

(PS: I originally planned to do extra updates during the weekends, but ended up having to work overtime, so I had to wait for the day off... miserable.)

(End of chapter)