All four members of the Research Group earned a total of 585 points from the Faculty of Mathematics <Prime Numbers Maze> course, more than they had previously earned in <Cardiovascular Ward>, and it only took them an hour and a half to earn that many points!
Thinking about the 5 days of thrills and chills of finding the murderer and fighting monsters in <Cardiovascular Ward>, it was so easy to get 585 points in an hour and a half this time.
Yue Xingwen was in an excited mood and turned around to give Jiang Pingce a hug. “Perfect score! You’re awesome! The three of us got 585 points for doing nothing more than running errands, how comfortable ah!”
Liu Zhaoqing sighed. “This should be the easiest time for us to get points, right? There is a top student in the team, it’s almost like opening a plug-in.”
Ke Shaobin also said seriously, “Even if I used a calculator, I guess I still can’t match Pingce’s mental calculation.”
Yue Xingwen always knew that Jiang Pingce was very good at math. In high school, Jiang Pingce got full marks in every math exam. It was said that the math teacher in their class would directly take Jiang Pingce’s paper as a standard answer to the question.
Upon arriving at the university, Jiang Pingce was even more powerful. In this maze that combined mathematical operations and three-dimensional geometric analysis, without Jiang Pingce, they would not have been able to find their way out in 4 hours, not to mention 1 and a half hours.
Yue Xingwen patted Jiang Pingce’s shoulder gently and said, “Great Minister, you’ve worked hard this time.”
Jiang Pingce said, “It’s okay, it’s not hard.”
After taking the first course, it was 10:00am in the library. Yue Xingwen looked at the clock on the wall and said, “Let’s go back to the dormitory first. Senior brother Zhuo Feng and the others went to retake the Faculty of Medicine and should be out soon.”
When the four of them went out, they returned to the hall of the Faculty of Mathematics. Many students gathered under the large screen of the class schedule. The students all frowned bitterly, obviously unsure of how to pass the course in the Faculty of Mathematics.
Looking at the bewildered students, Yue Xingwen lowered his head in thought. Then he walked over to Jiang Pingce’s side and leaned to his ear, and whispered, “This <Prime Number Maze> course of the Faculty of Mathematics has a failure rate of 65%. It seems to be difficult for many students. If you don’t mind, why don’t you share our clearance strategy and help them out a bit?”
Jiang Pingce simply agreed. “Okay, I’ll go back and organize my thoughts.”
They had finished the exam and shared the strategy to the students behind them, so it would not have an effect on their own performance, it was just like many senior students at university that would share strategy and provide revision materials to junior students.
Yue Xingwen had received help from many senior brothers and senior sisters in school, and he often shared information in the forum.
Jiang Pingce had never done this before, but this library was different from reality, they needed to retake the course from the start after failing it, and they would be obliterated after failing it once more! Since Yue Xingwen called for the establishment of a University Alliance, Jiang Pingce was certainly willing to cooperate with him and share his experience so that the students behind them could pass the exam more easily.
Upon returning to their dormitory, Jiang Pingce began to sort out the map of the maze.
He redrawn the maps of the upper, middle and lower levels, took photos and uploaded them using the tablet he brought with him in the dorm, and then just posted a forum thread——
[Faculty of Mathematics <Prime Numbers Maze> Course’s Clearance Strategy]
Jiang Pingce’s strategy was very concise, using the black ‘Song’ font that was pre-installed in the forum. He simply listed a few main points like he did a math problem.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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The upper and lower levels of the maze were 7×7 with 49 rooms. Draw 7 horizontal and 7 vertical squares on the paper, walk straight in any direction to the end and turn right or left and continue straight to the end. In other words, take an ‘I’ shaped route, at this time you will be in a corner of 49 rooms, and then follow the ‘S’ shaped route, you won’t take a repeated path and get lost.
After finding the elevator out of the maze, then this course will be completed, and you will get the passing score of 60.
A detailed three-level map of the maze, a three-dimensional graphic, and a road map of the maze are attached for reference. In the next exam, there may be some changes within the maze. The numbers will definitely be changed, but the overall structure and the way to pass the exam will not change.
Second, Method of passing for teams who want to do additional question:
The additional question requires collecting all twin prime numbers, so you need to search all rooms in the maze and calculate whether each number is a prime number or not. The end number of 1/3/7/9 is more likely to be a prime number, and the end number of 0/2/4/5/6/8 will be directly ruled out.
- Quickly determine whether a number can be divided by 3: add each digit of this number, and if it can be divided by 3, and the number will be able to be divided by 3. For example, number 185337, you can directly calculate: 1+8+5+3+3+7=27, and this 27 can be divided by 3, then 185337 can also be divided by 3. So, this number is not a prime number.
- Quickly determine whether a number can be divided by 7, 11, 13. You can use the ‘last three’ method. If the difference between the last three digits and the first digits (take the positive number) can be divided by 7, 11, 13, then this number can be divided by 7, 11, and 13.
Example: 939911, calculate it as 939-911=28, 28 can be divided by 7, then 939911 can also be divided by 7.
Another example: 124371, calculate it as 371-124=247, 247 can be divided by 13, and this number can be divided by 13.
Both of the methods upstairs are designed to reduce the number of digits and simplify the math-operation.
The proof is as follows:
Set a number to abcdef.
abcdef = abc x 1000 + def = abc x 1001 – abc + def = abc x 7 x 13 x 11 – (abc – def)
When abc – def can be divided by 7/11/13, then abcdef can be divided by 7/11/13…
Upon seeing this, Yue Xingwen had given up thinking and felt a headache, he slid right past the rest with his fingers.
Mathematics was indeed a magical subject.
Jiang Pingce wrote a serious and rigorous strategy, not only telling everyone what to do, but also telling everyone ‘why to do this’. It was estimated that it did not seem difficult to the science students, but it made the liberal arts students feel dizzy.
After Jiang Pingce sent out the strategy, the replies immediately soared.
Many liberal arts majors had left comments like this: “Top student, my roommates asked me why I knelt after seeing your strategy!”
“How do I have the confidence to click into the Faculty of Mathematics’ strategy post? I want to poke my eyes.”
“My eyes tell me it understands, but my brain tells me: it doesn’t understand!”
“Fellow Liberal Arts students, what do you think? For this Faculty of Mathematics’ course, it’s already good to have passed it, and how about we just read a few first lines? This senior brother even drew a map, and the first few lines are still quite easy to understand. As for the latter… I’m sorry, I just skipped it.”
“Upstairs is right, additional question? We think too much. Don’t do the additional question, just ignore all the numbers, and simply walk through the maze to go out and burn the incense!”
Many science students said that their thoughts were finally clear after reading the post, and expressed their gratitude to Jiang Pingce who took the initiative to post the strategy, and many fanboys and fangirls confessed to Jiang Pingce in the post.
The reply was mixed with a large number of: “Senior brother is handsome”
“Top student, muachhh”
“Male god, do you still lack leg pendants?”
Yue Xingwen could not help but laugh lightly, glancing back at Jiang Pingce and teasing him, “Once you post this strategy, you’ll probably gain a large number of fans in the library, and I’ve already seen dozens of confession replies to you.”
Jiang Pingce said lightly, “If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t have written this strategy.”
He had never been a warm-hearted person, but he never turned down a request from Yue Xingwen either. He would help whoever Xingwen asked him to help. If Yue Xingwen did not say it, he would not spend time taking the initiative to post any strategy.
Yue Xingwen knew that Jiang Pingce had this kind of cold and indifferent personality. When he heard this, he smiled and walked over to sit side by side with Jiang Pingce, saying, “Although some people can’t understand the strategy, there are also a large number of students who can learn from it, at least after understanding the first one, they can smoothly go out of the maze and get a passing score of 60.”
He turned his head to look at Jiang Pingce and said softly, “Pingce, writing this strategy is just like lifting a finger for you, but it is like a timely rain that can solve the problem of many Research Groups not being able to pass the Prime Numbers Maze.”
Yue Xingwen had a serious expression and continued. “Don’t think I’m nosy, and full of kindness. The library’s environment is so brutal that a few girls were crying in anxiety just now under the class schedule’s screen in the Faculty of Mathematics’ lobby. Where the Prime Numbers Maze that is a breeze for you may cause many students who are not good at math to have trouble sleeping, or even be eliminated. We’re just helping out in passing as we can, how about it?”
Every time he spoke seriously to someone, he could always convince the other person.
The corner of Jiang Pingce’ lips raised slightly. “En, I’ll listen to you. In the future courses, we can also sort out the strategy to use as a reference to other students.” Looking at Yue Xingwen beside him, his gaze gradually softened, “You’ve always liked to help people, the overall difficulty of this library has been reduced a lot because of you.”
Whether it was the Student Convention to discipline everyone and prevent teams of students from fighting each other; Or taking the initiative to send the strategies to give more reference ideas for students taking the exam later…
Yue Xingwen’s approach had been helping the students.
He was the one who made the whole library atmosphere harmonious and warm.
What started out as a dark and thrilling escape game turned into a college final exam where ‘students work together’.
From the replies on the forum today, it could be seen that many students replied with light-hearted and humorous statements, and some of them even dared to flirt with Jiang Pingce in the post, just like the school forum flooding chat. Compared with the large-scale cursing and quarrels caused by the throwing acid the day before yesterday, the library forum had gradually become more energetic and warm.
Yue Xingwen was bashful to accept the praise, so he coughed lightly, “Don’t put me on high pedestal. I’m just doing what I can. Thanks to you for the maze this time. I only now understand what the map you drew means, it is really awesome. If I analyze it myself, I can’t think of those 7×7 squares, and I have long been dizzy.”
Jiang Pingce said gently, “My spatial sense and calculating skills are better than yours, but your verbal skills and knowledge are so much better than mine. Different people have different strengths, no need to be ashamed because you can’t compare with me in math.”
Yue Xingwen raised an eyebrow and said, “How can I be ashamed? With you around, when it comes to math in the future, I’ll just give up thinking!”
Both of them looked at each other and smiled.
On the forum, Jiang Pingce’s post was quickly topped as a popular one.
As Yue Xingwen said, this strategy was a timely rain on a hot summer day for the team stuck in the Faculty of Mathematics on the 2nd floor. If they did not want to do the additional question and just wanted to pass, they just needed to follow Jiang Pingce’s method to go through the maze. Even if four liberal arts students teamed up, they could still pass the course with 60 points.
There were more and more messages of thanks, and some students recognized Jiang Pingce’s name and expressed their admiration for Jiang Pingce, the legendary god of mathematics.
Jiang Pingce glanced at the messages and closed the forum.
It was the first time in his long life that he shared his insights with other students.
In the three years of high school, because he was so cold, no one dared to borrow his notes.
Seeing a large number of ‘thank you’ in thousand of replies after the strategy post was sent—— He used to think that Yue Xingwen loved to toss about and being busy, but now he found that only Xingwen could maintain a kind thought and a pure heart no matter what kind of world he faced.
This kind of person was rare.
Seeing that Jiang Pingce kept looking at himself, Yue Xingwen could not help but wonder, “What’s wrong? Did I say something wrong?”
Jiang Pingce smiled softly, “You’re right about everything.”
Yue Xingwen patted Jiang Pingce’s shoulder with a proud expression of ‘count on you now’. After a pause, he said with a straight face, “Let’s skip the elective course this afternoon. I have a headache looking at the schedule, we just need to pass the compulsory courses first.”
Jiang Pingce nodded. “En, rest in the dormitory this afternoon, there is another compulsory course <Death Code> at the Faculty of Mathematics tomorrow morning at 8am. We will go straight to this class.”
Yue Xingwen pondered, “Death Code? Sounds a lot like a reasoning class by its name?”
Jiang Pingce guessed. “It may be a suspenseful case related to numbers.”
The two men looked at each other, and Yue Xingwen smiled. “If it’s a reasoning class, I can still help. When the time comes, we’ll complement each other’s ideas, pass the course together and strive to get more points to upgrade my dictionary!”
I relate to the liberal art students. I just skipped through it, my brain can’t process too much numbers 😵
Thx for the chapter!
With the walkthrough, I will be able to pass. Additional questions? What about it? I got a headache trying to make sense of it. Ouch. xD
My brain hurt trying to read it so i directly skipped the math info paragraph lol 😅
Thnxx for the chapter !!!
My brain hurts trying to read it
Thanks for the chapter
Thanks for the chapter!!!
I feel like I could take a stab at the additional question using these hints, but I might not be able to calculate quickly enough to pass the exam.
I’m not fully an art student, but I can understand only half of this strategy… I only can count statistic data…
Thank you for your translation 🤍🤍
Thank you for the chapter!
I knew about the adding numbers trick but not the last three trick.
Nice, to think I actually learnt something here lol.
Awww. JPC is finally understanding the joy of helping others
I am one of those kneeling down on my kmees for the ML😭 Good for you to actually calculate, I gave up when it came to 4 digits. I also didn’t know about the adding together strategy. I was a bright student but maths alone never loved me shrugg
knees* I apologize for the typo 🤧
Author, are you lacking leg pendants? 😊
Science student, but can learn.
Lmao my brain just crashed at the numbers🤣
I just kept on reading the numbers without actually comprehending any of it🤣
Death code smells of trouble death and danger
Y’all, let’s forget about Ah Ce and WenWen for a sec. THE AUTHOR! Author is too hardcore! I am willing to be the author’s leg pendant.😭😭😭😭
The method of division is actually works!! T-T I have tried it.
As an art major who struggled with math, senior brother Pingce’s explanation seems very straightforward! I can understand subtracting abc-def and the addition of all the numbers but afterwards it becomes very difficult to follow!
Regardless. I very much appreciate how simple and straight to the point his instructions are 🙂
I really relate to the liberal student 😂😂 the first half i can still understand the second half on the other hand 😔😔😂😂