Bai Hao remembered a science fiction movie that told an interesting story.
A story about a certain scientist who received some kind of hint to help them escape from danger, and in the end the scientist discovered that the person who kept sending him hints was himself in another dimension.
Ignore them, let's fool around for a while, nothing is black hole, time, space, multi-dimensional space.
Anyway, Stephen has always accepted this theory.
Bai Hao started to cheat.
Sure enough, Stephen was very interested.
Bai Hao drew a simple picture on the small blackboard, what kind of black hole, what kind of wormhole, what kind of spaceship... Anyway, it was just like the ones in science fiction movies.
"Based on the assumption of the timeline, we assume that there are thirty-three dimensions, and the time between them is thirty-four months, then, thirty-three times thirty-four...
Bai Hao swiped at the small blackboard and did some calculations using the method he learned in the second grade of elementary school.
"Wait a minute." A doctor named Ram stopped Bai Hao: "How did you calculate this?"
Bai Hao saw everyone looking at him as if he were an alien.
Bai Hao asked back: "Isn't that how you calculate it?"
Everyone shook their heads.
Bai Hao asked: "Then, how should we calculate it?"
Ram took a piece of chalk and started to draw on the blackboard. Thirty-three times thirty-four, that is, three vertical lines on the left, a little space, and three vertical lines on the right. Then three horizontal lines on the top, a little space, and four horizontal lines on the bottom.
.
Then start counting intersections, and then...
Bai Hao felt that he couldn't understand.
Bai Hao asked curiously: "What about ninety-nine times ninety-nine?"
"Same."
What Bai Hao saw was a blackboard filled with lines.
There is a hypothesis in Bai Hao's mind. If it is a four-digit number multiplied by a four-digit number, should I go out and borrow another blackboard?
"Then, what about nine hundred and ninety-eight times nine hundred and ninety-nine?"
Ram smiled faintly: "Simple." After saying that, Bai Hao saw Ram take out a calculator from his coat pocket.
Damn it!
Stunned!
Then he changed to Ram and asked: "Where did you get the number in the middle?"
"We have our multiplication tables."
"What is the multiplication table?"
"That's it..." Bai Hao thought seriously: "Seven, eight, fifty-six, seven, nine, sixty-three, nine, nine, eighty-one... That's it."
Everyone still looked confused.
Bai Hao began to doubt his ability to express himself in Mandarin.
Well, Bai Hao admitted that he had never learned Fu Mandarin. He always believed that the languages of Fu Guo and Mei Guo were similar. Now it seems that there are differences.
Next, there will be no more black holes, no more time travel, and no more wormholes.
There is only one thing.
Bai Hao's speech turned into a multiplication table.
Late at night, when he returned to the hotel, Bai Hao wanted to complain, but he heard Xue Linlin say: "The leader wants to see you and is coming this way. He is very urgent."
It’s more than 70 kilometers and we drove all night.
Bai Hao was a little nervous: "I, I... help me recall whether I did anything outrageous after I arrived in Fu Country."
Xue Linlin opened the small book very seriously, checked it carefully, and then gave a definite answer: "Theoretically not, but you attended tea parties twice, and I don't know what you said. It's not convenient for me to follow you at this time.
"
"What did I say?" Bai Hao began to reflect.
Black hole?
Wormhole?
Time travel?
Finally, the leader arrived.
Bai Hao's first sentence was: "You're not here to scold me."
"It's hard to say."
These words made Bai Hao tense up.
The leader said: "An hour ago, the Minister of Education of the Fu Kingdom received strong requests from many well-known professors, and then contacted me. He said that he would introduce a technology from our Xia Kingdom, called Nine.
The nine-nine multiplication table, I have been thinking about it on the way here, what is the nine-nine multiplication table?"
Bai Hao replied: "Isn't it the one printed on the second grade stationery?"
"Yes, that's what it sounds like, but when the other party came to me specifically at night? So, tell me, what happened, because many well-known professors who made this suggestion, including Mr. Stephen, are attending the meeting with you tonight
For the science tea party.”
"Ah..." Bai Hao rolled his eyes: "Damn it."
"how?"
Bai Hao replied: "I feel that apart from drinking boiled water, another magic weapon has been discovered by the Fu Kingdom."
The leader's face turned dark. Bai Hao, you are still joking with me at this time.
Bai Hao started to talk about the whole process of tonight's tea party.
The leader burst into laughter.
Anyone who hears this will laugh out loud.
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be the multiplication table, the one printed on the inner lid of the second-grade iron pencil case.
Yes, this is really a problem.
No joke.
The next day, there was a real signing agreement.
The corrupt country has introduced an enhanced version of the multiplication table, either nine-nine, which is up to twelve digits, or twelve times twelve, which is an enhanced version of one hundred and forty-four.
In addition to entrusting Xia Guo to print one million copies using various carriers, he also gave an additional scientific astronomical telescope as a gift.
And then.
Bai Hao received another honorary doctorate from Guoqiao University.
Fu Guoqiao University is also planning to erect a statue in the university. There is a person named "Guan Zhong" in the Mathematics Hall of Fame.
In fact, Xia Guo could not find out who invented the multiplication table.
However, the first time it appeared in a book was in the book "Guanzi". He is tentatively considered the inventor. Of course, it may also be Fuxi, but there is no physical or written evidence to support it.
The science meeting was finally over. Bai Hao didn't talk about time travel, but talked about Guan Zhong and the multiplication table.
Got it! Thunderous applause.
Bai Hao returned to the Fog Capital of the Fu Kingdom and sat in the leader's office, drinking authentic Xia Kingdom green tea.
Bai Hao asked: "By the way, will the mathematics level of this rotten country improve a lot?"
The leader smiled: "Advanced mathematics, without this multiplication table, they are already very, very strong. Ordinary people's mathematics, without this, is the same. In the corrupt country, even reporters said that whoever asks questions about arithmetic,
You are just making things difficult for others. When products are on sale in supermarkets, the discount ratio you see and the final price are never the same."
Bai Hao thought about it, and it seemed that it was true.
Before the rebirth, the country could even add the wrong number of Olympic medals.
I originally thought they did it on purpose.
Later I found out that they really thought that what they added was correct.
Just chatting.
A staff member brought in newspapers.
Newspaper front page.
Countless parents of students protested that this increased the learning pressure on their children.
But soon, the new newspaper's tone changed.
At first, countless people praised Xia people for their great wisdom.
Because someone took the multiplication table copied from TV and showed off his power in the supermarket, pointing out the mistakes in many supermarket discounts, and the discount ratio was different from the final price.
