socalfunplaces Chapter 253
Chapter 253
As Gao Yang lowered his head to think, time passed by bit by bit.
Soon, the sand in the hourglass was about to run out, and the arrogance on Suan Wudao's face became more and more intense.
A mere living devil, nothing more than that!
With this level of mathematics, you dare to provoke him, Suan Wudao, how naive and ridiculous!
Chu Ningyu's uneasiness in her heart gradually began to weaken with time.
But only Wu Zhao, Shangguan Wan'er and Gao Feng were calm and not panicked at all.
"Master Gao, time is almost up!"
"Give up!"
"When people are forced into a corner, they can do anything, but they can't do mathematics problems. This thing can be done if you know it, and can't be done if you don't know it. Give up!"
Suan Wudao's voice resounded throughout the Golden Palace, with a burst of pride.
Gao Yang heard the words and flicked the sand in the hourglass.
He turned to look at Suan Wudao, a smile appeared on his face, and his voice slowly sounded.
"Master Suan, I have a method of chopping feet that can solve this problem!"
"Chopping feet method?"
"???"
Master Suan's eyes widened when he heard this.
"Master Gao, are you kidding me?"
"Why do you chop feet for this math problem?"
All the officials were also confused.
Is there such a simple and crude way to solve the mysterious math problem?
Wu Zhao smiled and said, "Gao Yang, I am a little curious, what is this so-called chopping feet method?"
Gao Yang first bowed to Wu Zhao, and then looked at the civil and military officials in the Jinluan Palace.
"To put it simply, this question is a mathematical problem of chickens and rabbits in the same cage. We only know the total number of heads and feet, and each chicken has two feet, while the rabbit has four feet!"
"Each chicken and each rabbit has only one head, so the variable is the feet!"
"Knowing this, it's easy. I will directly take out a 40-zhang long sword from my crotch and cut off two feet of each rabbit, thus achieving a balance!"
"Then the chickens and rabbits in the cage now have two feet, and the total number of heads is 60, so the total number of feet in the cage is 120!"
"But according to the old man's question, the total number of feet is 200. Where did the missing 80 feet go?"
Gao Yang had a faint smile on his face, and looked at the civil and military officials in the hall. When he saw Wang Zhong, who was confused, Gao Yang paused.
Wang Zhong saw Gao Yang's eyes and said with some anger, "Master Gao, why are you looking at me? I didn't steal these eighty legs!"
Gao Yang's mouth twitched.
He looked at Lu Zhen again, and Lu Zhen immediately waved his sleeves and said, "I will never do this!"
Gao Yang's heart moved, and he turned to look at Wu Zhao.
Wu Zhao looked at Gao Yang deeply, rolled her eyes, and didn't follow the script at all. She asked, "Are these eighty legs missing the legs of all the rabbits that were chopped off?"
Gao Yang looked disappointed. He originally expected Wu Zhao to wave her dragon robe and proudly say that she didn't steal them, so that he could see the little expression on the face of the first generation of female emperor.
"Your Majesty is wise. The total number of legs of the chickens and rabbits in the cage is correct. The culprit of all this is that I cut off two legs of each rabbit, which is why there are 80 legs missing!"
"So one rabbit is missing two legs, so there are 80 legs missing in total, so the number of rabbits is 40, and the number of chickens is 60 minus 40, which is 20!"
"This problem is solved!"
Accompanying Gao Yang's voice, all officials gasped.
Then, a noisy sound suddenly sounded, as if to overturn the entire Golden Palace!
"Wonderful!"
"Great!"
"This method of chopping off the feet is too cruel!"
"I never thought that mathematics could be solved in such a simple and crude way!"
"As expected of you, Master Gao, this method is very wonderful, and the variables of this problem are found directly and accurately!"
"Turning decay into magic, this 40-meter knife is too cruel!"
"Master Li, although this method is very wonderful, you shouldn't drool in admiration, right?"
Master Li wiped his saliva and said awkwardly, "I didn't eat before going to court, I'm greedy, rabbit legs are good, roasted and delicious..."
Buzz!
Suan Wudao was stunned.
He looked at Gao Yang in disbelief, and his heart was instantly broken.
The mathematics problem he had studied for many years, the chicken and rabbit in the same cage problem that made countless scholars of Da Chu cry when they saw this problem, was solved by Gao Yang using a 40-meter-long sword to chop off the rabbit's two feet.
And it became so simple that even anyone could solve this problem!
But even he had to say that this solution was amazing!
Except for being a little cruel, there were no other shortcomings!
Gao Yang looked at Suan Wudao with a pair of smiling eyes, and he smiled and said
"Master Suan, 40 rabbits and 20 chickens?"
"Is my answer correct?"
Master Suan's face turned pale. Although he was extremely reluctant to admit it, as he said, mathematics is not like couplets, poems, or any other knowledge in the world.
In mathematics, right is right and wrong is wrong!
But when he thought of the rice on the chessboard after losing, and the sky-high price of grain.
Suan Wudao could only grit his teeth and said, "Master Gao, I admit that you have cracked my chicken and rabbit problem and calculated the correct answer, but this method is too vicious and violates the purpose of my mathematics!"
"So, Master Gao can't be considered to have won!"
As soon as Suan Wudao said this, the Golden Palace exploded.
Lü Zhen was the first to curse, "He is the chief of the School of Mathematics of the Great Chu, but I didn't expect him to be so shameless!"
"When did the School of Mathematics have any bullshit purpose?"
"I have never seen such a shameless person as you!"
Then, a crowd of criticisms suddenly sounded.
But Suan Wudao gritted his teeth and stood up to the scolding.
Obviously, Suan Wudao's face is much thicker than that of Mr. Zhou.
Lü Zhen couldn't help cursing.
"Fuck!"
"As expected of a scholar who has become an official, his face is too thick, and I can't spray it!"
As soon as the words fell, Lu Wen and others all looked at Lü Zhen, and their mouths twitched.
Wu Zhao had a cold look on her face. She naturally knew the reason why Suan Wudao refused to admit it. The grain involved behind this was not enough to cover a fraction of it even if Suan Wudao was sold.
But this reason was really too shameless.
It would be great if an ordinary person could come up with a solution to such a difficult problem.
Wu Zhao's eyes were full of murderous intent. Did the Great Chu envoys really think she was good-tempered?
But just as she was about to speak, she suddenly heard Gao Yang's voice resounding throughout the Golden Palace.
"No problem!"
"Since Mr. Suan thinks the chopping foot method is too cruel, I also have the Golden Rooster Stand Method, the Hypothesis Method, the Whistle Method, and the Equation Method, all of which can solve this problem, and I guarantee that Mr. Suan will be convinced!"