Of course, Lin Xiao could understand what this person said. He could have a fluent conversation with Professor Pompieri in the field of mathematics. Naturally, he would not even know these daily expressions.
He responded in Chinese at first because he thought he was looking for trouble.
Having watched so many American movies, it is well known that American students like campus bullying. Who knows if they will do the same thing when they come here.
Of course, if they really want to fight, they won't be afraid. Let's take Ouyang Sheng. Although this guy concentrates on studying mathematics, he also likes to play basketball. He is over 1.8 meters tall. As for Lin Xiao himself, he also has
He is 1.78 meters tall, and if he wears shoes with slightly thicker soles, he will be 1.8 meters tall. As for the others, they are not easy to bully.
However, hearing that this person was not looking for trouble, but actually proposed a competition, made Lin Xiao smile.
If you're not looking for trouble, that's easy to say. As for competing?
He waved his hand and said directly: "No need for two hours, I can take one hour. As for you, feel free to do whatever you want. Don't put too much pressure on yourself. After all, you represent your American team. Oh, by the way, today and tomorrow
It’s all the same, I can only use——”
"One hour."
This time, Lin Xiao used English.
And this James Lin also understood it.
He didn't know what to say for a moment.
He didn't know whether to call Lin Xiao crazy or bragging, but thinking that he was someone who could be invited to give a report at the International Congress of Mathematicians, he couldn't say anything in doubt.
It's like facing a boss. Whatever the boss says, you have to say "Ah, yes, yes." As for questioning the boss? Then you have to have the courage and enough confidence to deny the boss.
However, his teammates obviously don't have such a good temper anymore.
Solve three IMO questions in one hour?
Terence Tao was not so awesome back then, and even Terence Tao didn't even get full marks. Of course, Terence Tao participated in three competitions in three years between the ages of 10 and 12. There is no comparison. However, Lin Xiao said so wildly, of course Lin Xiao had a bad temper.
Xiao was just provoking them.
Of course, this is an IMO competition venue. If you quarrel, you will be kicked out of the examination room, so they did not make any noise. They just asked: "Then what if you can't finish it in an hour?"
Lin Xiao glanced at the person asking the question and said, "Can't it be done in an hour? Then maybe it can be done in fifty minutes, maybe forty minutes?"
"you……"
"Okay." James Lin stopped his teammates' impulse, then took a deep look at Lin Xiao and said, "Then it's settled, I hope I can see you get up and leave within an hour of the game starting.
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Lin Xiao nodded slightly, "You will see it."
James Lin nodded, and then pulled his teammates away from here.
The tall brown man among his teammates saw James Lin stopping him, and he couldn't help but said: "Lin, why don't you let me talk?"
"Don't have a dispute here, don't forget what Emily told us, follow the rules." James Lin said.
"But he said he would finish it within an hour, do you believe it?"
"Then if someone told you before that there was an 18-year-old Chinese high school student who not only received an invitation from the International Congress of Mathematicians, but also went on stage to give a report, would you believe it?"
"This..." The brown teammate didn't know what to say.
Before, he didn't seem to believe that such a perversion existed.
"So, don't think too much, let's wait and see if he can leave the examination room within an hour."
"knew."
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On the other side, watching the American team members walk away, Sun Yu and the others couldn't help but ask Lin Xiao: "What did they say just now?"
Looking at the dark-skinned guy next to him just now, it seemed as if he was going to hit Lin Xiao. They were all ready to protect Lin Xiao.
Lin Xiao said speechlessly: "So, you guys should practice more English in the future."
Then he simply said that the person just now came to challenge him, and Sun Yu and the others couldn't help laughing.
"Is that guy looking for emotional abuse?"
"I don't know how big the psychological shadow will be on him after the results come out."
However, at this time, Ouyang Sheng asked again: "By the way, Lin Shen, you just said 'an-hour', do you really want to make it in an hour?"
"Yes, didn't you ask me just now?"
Several people were really speechless now, but Lin Xiao actually came serious.
They couldn't even imagine completing three IMO competition questions in one hour. Such speed and such confidence.
Lin Xiao shook his head and said: "Okay, go find your seat, it will be nine o'clock soon."
After hearing what Lin Xiao said, they stopped asking any more questions, and then they separated and found their seats.
Soon, Lin Xiao found his seat based on his candidate information.
When I came to my seat, there were a lot of things on it, including a bottle of water, a banana, and a chocolate bar.
After all, the exam time is from 9:30 to 2:00 in the afternoon. There is no guarantee that some contestants will feel hungry in the middle. If they eat a chocolate bar, they can overcome the hunger and be themselves.
In addition, the questions are also placed above, but it is not allowed to be opened yet, and can only be opened at nine o'clock.
Soon, nine o'clock arrived. On the rostrum, the current IMO chairman announced that all contestants should be seated and stopped communicating. Then he could unseal the test questions and confirm whether there was anything he didn't understand.
There is definitely no problem with the question, but there may be problems with translation. Therefore, if contestants from non-English-speaking countries have doubts in this regard, they can raise the help request sign on the table to indicate that they have a problem, and then get answers from the team leader.
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This means that they can spend half an hour thinking about the topic.
But Lin Xiao didn't use this half hour.
He briefly looked at the title and determined that there were no problems with translation and printing, so he put it aside and continued to think about the problem of Mersenne primes.
Nowadays, he is a little tired of this kind of competition, and he will even receive inexplicable challenges like just now.
With so much energy, wouldn't it be better for him to study more challenging problems?
For him, whether it is IMO or CMO, the questions are too simple.
He said he would hand in the paper within an hour because he had been taking time to do a set of exercises every day for so long. It took an average of two and a half hours at the beginning, then two hours, and then one and a half hours.
Until the past month, the average time it took him to finish a set of papers had reached 40 to 50 minutes. He said that it took him an hour to show his respect for IMO.
Shaking his head slightly, he stopped thinking about it. Anyway, he had no intention of participating in such competitions in the future.