Ch12 - Secret Rose

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Xia Xiqing quickly figured it out and immediately understood, but before he had time to speak, Zhou Ziheng, who was still looking at the computer page, took the lead.

“This is the Four-Leaf Rose number.” U3uTtG

Xia Xiqing struck out the question mark on the draft and wrote a number at the end of the equal sign – 1634

Now, how did he do it?

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“That’s right.” He raised an eyebrow and looked at Zhou Ziheng in surprise. “You knew it’s the Four-Leaf Rose number without counting?” Isn’t he a physics student? Is he also good at mental arithmetic?

Zhou Ziheng pointed to the computer, “Look at the roses on this page.” hQSvTg

Shang Sirui, who was born incompetent in calculation, has been looking at the computer page with Zhou Ziheng, and he has also discovered the secret, “Oh! The roses on this are all copied and pasted. They are all the same in length and have only four leaves. I said it was weird.” Soon, his delicate face showed a confused expression again, “But…what is the Four-Leaf Rose number?”

Xia Xiqing pointed to the formula on the draft paper, “It’s written very clearly here. You see, the four-digit number 1634, and the 4th power of each number in each digit is equal to 1634 itself. This is the Four-Leaf Rose number. It’s actually a four-digit self-exponent.”

Shang Sirui nodded his head as if he did understand. Looking at the two people who already knew the type of this number, he suddenly became happy, “Then the last two numbers are also Four-Leaf Rose numbers, right? Can you fill it out now? ”

This child is too optimistic. Xia Xiqing felt a headache. He spun the pen in his hand subconsciously and gave a straightforward negative answer, “I can’t.” After he finished speaking, he stopped his pen and looked at Zhou Ziheng, “Do you know which four-digit numbers are Four-Leaf Rose numbers?”

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Zhou Ziheng shook his head, “I only know that there are three.”

He studied physics, not mathematics. Probably only overly idle mathematicians who study numbers every day will know.

Who was so bored they memorized this? Xia Xiqing sighed. He became very restless when he encountered such things that needed patience. Tapping the nib of his pen on the paper, he said, “So what do we do now? Exhaustive?”

“Exhaustive until the end of this season?” Zhou Ziheng mocked him easily. “The brute-force method will not work at this time, right?” qddQ8c

“What exhaustive, what brute force?” Shang Sirui was so confused that he rubbed his cheek madly. “What kind of immortal dialogue are you all having? It’s all in Chinese. Why can’t I understand a word?”

Xia Xiqing laughed and pinched his long forehead down to behind his ears, “Anyway, it’s basically impossible to figure it out by hand, so it doesn’t matter whether you can understand it or not.”

“If I had known that it was so brain-racking to be on this show, I would have asked my agent to refuse it, hahaha.” Shang Sirui has a very familiar personality, he put his hand on Xia Xiqing’s shoulder and gave a hearty laugh. He doesn’t have any idol burden. “After all, I’m  a grass-wrapped man.”

This child is also amusing. Xia Xiqing always used a gentle knife in love. Over time, it has become a habit. He turned his face to Shang Sirui, smiled and corrected his definition of himself, “I’ll have to correct you. Even if you are, you’re a grass-wrapped beauty.” IAGKl4

“Oh ~ ~” Shang Sirui clasped his neck, and pulled him closer as they leaned against each other to the utmost, “but I think you are more beautiful than me, hahaha…”

Zhou Ziheng was numbed when he looked at the two people hanging shoulder to shoulder. On the one hand, he felt a deeper contempt for Xia Xiqing. On the other hand, he was a little worried about Shang Sirui, the careless fool.

The expression and tone of Xia Xiqing’s words to him just now seemed to be flirting in Zhou Ziheng’s eyes. Xia Xiqing was simply poisonous, his eyes were full of honey and smile when he spoke, no matter who the object was.

It’s not because Shang Sirui caught his attention, right? This thought also scared him. Zhou Ziheng frowned and coughed, which diverted everyone’s attention. “I think we have missed some important clues. The program team won’t make things so difficult for the guests, it is basically impossible to do it by hand.” 2kAenL

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Xia Xiqing nodded in agreement. The program team won’t embarrass the guests, especially Shang Sirui, the original player in this room. This room was much less difficult than the previous one, they must have missed an important detail, so the clues broke off.

But he didn’t like this kind of thing that needed to be solved with vehemence. Calculating one by one and going through it thousands of times, this kind of low-level work didn’t need human beings to complete for a long time. Thinking of this, he couldn’t help laughing, “Well, if only my nephew is here. The four leaf rose number and daffodil number are their classic examples for programming beginners. After coding them so many times, they may have remembered these numbers long ago.”

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Zhou Ziheng manually moved the mouse, turned off the initial interface, and looked at the computer desktop and checked some folders.

Xia Xiqing said to him, “You would not be able to find it like this…There must be a path written…” He walked back to the previous wastebasket.

“Hey hey, where are you going?”

“There may be a clue.” fTiQrv

One by one he looked at the flat waste paper they sorted out, some with irrelevant words written, and some were scrap paper drawn by children, until he turned to a piece with only one line written on it.

As he expected, it was a path in the computer.

“It’s under the D drive.” Xia Xiqing took the paper to Zhou Ziheng. Zhou Ziheng entered the path according to that line of words. Sure enough, he found an executable file named Rose in a deep folder. After execution, three numbers were printed directly on the black screen.

[1634  8208  9474] 9TbYRN

“Science and Technology is the primary productive force.” Xia Xiqing sighed heartily, and then copied the remaining two four leaf roses to the space of the title.

Zhou Ziheng leaned back on the chair, his long legs were too long, so he could only turn away to the two sides of the round table, put his hand in the pocket of his suit, and focused on combing the current clues.

Zhou Ziheng’s logic was very clear, “We now have two four digit numbers. According to the previous room, it’s probable that this is the password of something. However, we have not found any items that needed to be opened with the password, indicating that there is a clue broken here.”

Zhou Ziheng’s voice was very deep and had a beautiful resonance, which made Xia Xiqing unconsciously thought of the bells of Giotto's Bell Tower in Florence , and the sunset of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. Oba G4

When he passed by there with his drawing board on his back, the heavy bell struck his heart valves one by one. His whole body was numb, as if he had been electrified.

“Well?”

When the other party questioned, Xia Xiqing recovered his thoughts from the sunset in Florence. Seeing Zhou Ziheng looking at him suspiciously, he asked again, “What do you think?”

Xia Xiqing nodded. Although he didn’t hear what Zhou Ziheng had said before, he could probably guess that it was related to the current clue chain. “Yes, our goal now is to find the missing one.” He looked through the clues Shang Sirui had found before, leaving only a memo the size of a palm that had not been checked. He roughly looked through it. XY5ogV

Shang Sirui, who had been looking around, said next to him: “I just found this by the pillow. After looking through it for a long time, I haven’t found anything to use. I remember some miscellaneous things, such as when to attend the meeting and pick up the child. There are also words written by the child on this memo, it’s messy.”

The words written by the child?

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Xia Xiqing noticed something was wrong, so he turned it over again. Sure enough, the memo contained not only the handwriting of the owner of the room, but also the same handwriting from the four leaf rose math problem. However, the content was nothing more than some words written to his father, some of which wanted him to take him on a trip, some of which were ideas like attending a parents’ meeting.

Going through it again, there was still no information worth pondering. RdPxi2

What exactly is wrong?

Xia Xiqing put down the memo, holding his forehead in his hand and thinking down. Zhou Ziheng reached out and took the memo, turned it over, and suddenly said, “Is there a page missing here?”

“Really?” Xia Xiqing raised his head, he really didn’t notice. Zhou Ziheng flipped the memo to a certain page, and it turned out that there was a jagged edge of a torn page there.

“So in the paper basket just now…” Xia Xiqing suddenly remembered that there was indeed a piece of waste paper the same size as a memo. It was the handwriting of the teenager! 0BaxJr

He went over and knelt down on one knee to find the piece of paper. Although Shang Sirui didn’t understand the situation, he also came forward to Xia Xiqing and read out the information on the torn memo.

[Dad, the pen you gave me fell under the bed, but I can’t reach it. Can you help me find it?]

Pen?

Zhou Ziheng came over and knelt down on the ground to look at the bottom of the bed. However, the bed seemed to be solid, and there was no so-called space under the bed. fFbGCe

Xia Xiqing knocked on the wooden surface.

It’s not solid.

The moment he stood up, he saw a camera installed at the foot of the bed, and he was more certain of what he was thinking, “We have to move this bed away.”

“Really?” Shang Sirui was a little skeptical, “No, I think ha, is there any other clues? A pen feels… and there is so much information in the memo…” 92SGev

Zhou Ziheng shook his head and asked, “Was this paper in the memo?”

Shang Sirui’s reaction was slow, “No, wasn’t it torn off?”

Zhou Ziheng nodded, “So… if you were the owner of this memo, why would you tear up one of the pages?”

After listening to his question, Shang Sirui thought with his arms folded, “If you tear it off… there are many possibilities, such as it’s useless, but I feel that the whole memo is useless… Another example is, he doesn’t want it to be read by others. Unless…?” He suddenly got what Zhou Ziheng meant, snapped his fingers and pointed at him, “He doesn’t want it to be seen!” roszCG

Zhou Ziheng, with an expression of ‘You are finally enlightened’, smiled.

Xia Xiqing was carrying one side of the bed and was about to ask for help, but he found that the large bed was surprisingly light, and he could lift half of it himself.

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It’s really just a prop….

The three moved the bed without much effort. There were no marbles under the bed, only a box. To be precise, it was a safe box with two rows of password fields, and each field requires four numbers. W2cReM

There was a rose on the box, and four tiny leaves remained on the flower branch.

“Wow, I feel like I was accidentally covered by two kings.” Shang Sirui picked up the box with a look of excitement, and entered the password according to the answer calculated by the computer before, and the safe opened with two clicks.

Xia Xiqing smiled helplessly, isn’t it because the bronze player strayed into the king's game?

Zhou Ziheng looked at this smile from the side, he was absolutely indulging Shang Sirui, he’s not really attracted to him, right? ukYpRN

A complete misunderstanding.

“The key!” Shang Sirui was so excited that he immediately took out the key and didn’t care about anything else. “Finally, I can get out of this room.”

Xia Xiqing found that there was a file bag in the box. He opened the file bag, which was a power of attorney for property transfer. His expression was cold and he put the file bag aside.

Zhou Ziheng crossed his arms across his chest and leaned against the wall, observing the expression on Xia Xiqing’s face. This was his favorite pastime as an actor. He wondered if Xia Xiqing didn’t hide his expression just now, he was obviously such a cautious person. akHt5B

“Is there anything else inside?” Zhou Ziheng asked.

Actually, there is. Xia Xiqing checked the password box. There was an empty case of medical records in it. “It seems that it’s stuck in the box.” he made great effort to took it out, but he couldn’t, so he had to give up. “It’s just an empty case. There’s no medical records, no name or age in it.”

Shang Sirui glanced at him with a puzzled look, not very interested. For him, walking out of this room is equal to completing the task. He took the key and inserted it directly into the lock on his door. “The key is right, I can turn it!”

“Be careful.” Zhou Ziheng said, “It’s not certain whether the ones outside the door are enemies or friends.” 9hTMSd

Xia Xiqing chuckled and glanced lazily at Zhou Ziheng, and the two looked at each other again..

It’s not certain inside the door, let alone outside.

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The author has something to say: dS20RA

Popular Science:【Number of Four-leaf Roses】

This number with a nice name is actually “self exponent”. As the name suggests, self exponent refers to every digit of this nth-digit number (one digit, ten digit…) The n-th power of the number is equal to the number itself.

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

For example, when n = 3 (that is, the three digit self exponent), 1x1x1 5x5x5 3x3x3=153, which is the three digit self exponent. But the name self exponent sounds like It’s too mathematical, so it has some lovely nicknames, the most famous of which is the three digit self exponent number — daffodil number.

This is very interesting. You may wonder why you have to choose narcissus/daffodil for so many kinds of flowers? This is about to start from an ancient Greek myth. The river god and the fairy gave birth to a beautiful young Narcissus. All the fairies will fall in love with him. The most beautiful one is because of his tragic fate. In order to punish him, the moon god put a curse on him, so that he can only fall in love with himself. So one day he came to the river and saw his reflection. The curse worked. He died by a river full of daffodils. XfdxR7

So Narcissus stands for narcissism. The self exponent number of three digits is also called narcissus number.

Translator Note:

Zaki: *goes to the temple and lit incense, praying for my soul which definitely suffered by these mathematical curses and my brain which was previously on a single digit now becomes negative—- nosebleeds*

Ning: *whispers* it only gets worse from here on. 82obgy

RIP Zaki

Translator's Note

The four leaf Rose number means that the sum of the four powers of the four-digit number is equal to the number of itself.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_number)

Translator's Note

Exhaustive Proof ,some theorems can be proven by examining a relatively small number of examples. Such proofs are called exhaustive proofs (we just exhaust all the possibilities). Example: Prove that there are NO positive perfect cubes less than 1000 that are the sum of the cubes of two positive integers.

Translator's Note

slang for thick-headed, dense, slow-witted

Translator's Note

the three digit self exponent number, also refer to Narcissistic Number

Translator's Note

an amateur player strayed into the wrong game.

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14 comments

  1. i have to say it again: SSR is us T.T gotta thank author for letting my voice be heard through SSR, or i’d start to seriously question my brain orz

  2. I don’t understand that four-leaf rose business and it’s pissing me off! (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

    But at least we got our very first vinegar sip now! Keep trolling, MC!

  3. plus 1 to everyone who’s having brain circuits and head aches and decreasing brain cells.. see you all at the temple.. ughhh.. I need to beat up Ning first!

  4. I am studying programming course. But i don’t remember anything about daffodil number or four-leaf rose number. Maybe we have different curriculums or it just me that don’t understand. Lol 🤣