Chapter Twenty-Three: Five Monkeys and Peaches

Gao Mingzhen knocked on the stone table with the chess pieces in his hand, and looked at Peng Xianjian with a smile: "Two rats pierce the wall, round wood is buried in the wall, hundreds of soldiers fight for cakes, and I don't know how many things are there, yes, the new temple students of Tianlong Temple are really very good in this phase." There seemed to be a hint of mockery in her big bright eyes.

Peng Xianjian frowned, this time their questions, although they were not the most difficult in the past, they all met the basic difficulty requirements.

"Miss Gao Mingzhen, what do you want to say?"

Peng Xianjian said in a calm voice, the difficulty reached the basic requirements, and he was not afraid of the other party saying that he was letting these people release water.

Gao Mingzhen smiled: "It's nothing, I just think that their group of new temple students is very strong, an hour, one after another to overcome three arithmetic problems, gurgle, this is also rare in history, this time let me meet, how can I not communicate, ask for advice?" ”

"Excuse me?"

Peng Xianjian's face changed, his hands pressed on the stone table, stared at Gao Mingzhen and said in a low voice: "Miss Gao, this is not necessary, although they have solved four arithmetic problems, but after all, it is still the first day to enter Tianlong Temple, and they have not formally studied, how dare they be Gao Xiaoming's advice." ”

"Humph!"

The tall little girl standing next to Gao Mingzhen wrinkled her nose and snorted: "They haven't studied formally, has my sister Gao studied, this is a brain melon seed, they can all be selected to Tianlong Temple, that is, the smartest people selected from all over the country, why can't my sister Gao ask them for advice?" ”

"Miss Jiang's words are wrong." Peng Xianjian said, "Although you and Miss Gao have not studied in Tianlong Temple, you are both famous teachers, and you have your own famous teachers to teach, how can they compare." ”

"There are famous teachers in the world, but it's not just me and Sister Gao." Miss Jiang pouted.

Gao Mingzhen also smiled: "It's true that I have a famous teacher and professor, but you have studied in Tianlong Temple for so many years, aren't you taught by a famous teacher, and they are born in this new temple, are they all born to know, and the person who taught them is not a famous teacher?" ”

Peng Xianjian's eyebrows were even tighter, he naturally couldn't say that the original teachers of the new temple were all mediocre.

"Brother Peng, the little girl is just here to ask for teaching, since you can't solve this problem I came up with, why don't you let them do it." Gao Mingzhen said crisply, and then his eyes swept Nangongzhong, Yang Qixian, Qin Dynasty and other young people in the new temple, and finally fell on Zhang Jiucai.

"Brothers, you are all elites in the world, dragons and phoenixes among people, little sister, there is a question here, and please give me advice." Gao Mingzhen blinked his eyes as he spoke, and said with a sweet smile, "Little sister really asks for advice, don't refuse, brothers." ”

Peng Xianjian sighed, Gao Mingzhen directly challenged the new temple student, and he didn't want to talk more.

The new temple students on the champion altar, Nangong Zhong, Guan Shihao and other teenagers have a little bad looks.

They are not stupid, even the problems that the senior brothers of Tianlong Temple in the previous issue can't solve, how can they, the new temple students, be able to solve them, but can they refuse? Once the refusal fell even more of the momentum of the new temple students, it was spread out, and it became a bad seed who didn't even dare to fight, and no matter how good the performance was in the future, it was a stain.

"Miss Gao Mingzhen, don't say that." Yang Qixian laughed, and said with a smile, "Who in this world doesn't know that the granddaughter of the Marquis is smart and unparalleled in the world, and she is the first strange woman in the world, and her arithmetic talent is even better than that of the old Gao Xiangye. ”

"Yes, no matter how smart we are, we will never be as good as Gao Xiangye, let's discuss it together, don't ask for anything." Hu Qingxiu also said.

"Miss Gao is too polite."

"Everyone also wants to see if Miss Gao's peerless problem can be solved, so they can only do their best."

……

One by one, the teenagers said loudly, how can it be simple to be selected to come to Tianlong Temple, and they all think clearly, since they can't refuse you, then they will pick you up in advance, so that if you can't do it afterwards, you can lose face and step down, and Yang Qixian is right, you are Gao Shengtai's granddaughter, you are smart, and Gao Shengtai is careful, and it is normal for everyone to be unable to compare with the wild children in the countryside.

"Ginger." Gao Mingzhen didn't fight with the teenagers, but gestured to the tall girl next to him, "Hang up the topic, let the genius brothers take a look, so that we can solve our doubts." ”

"Okay!"

Jiang Si smiled at everyone, but he didn't see her move, and his body jumped up out of thin air, "Smack!" As soon as she raised her hand, the rolled banner in her hand was hung on the hook of the big green umbrella next to her.

"If you don't understand the question, you can ask me, as for other nonsense, you don't need to say more, my senior sister still has to play chess!" After Jiang Si finished speaking, he glanced at Nangong Zhong, Qin Chao and Zhang Jiucai with a defiant look.

The banner along the umbrella slowly falls.

The young men even looked over with bated breath, and Qin Chao, Zhang Jiucai, and Nangong Zhong didn't pay attention to Jiang Si, but instead looked at the banner and looked at the peerless problem that had stumped the last phase of Tianlong Temple.

On the snow-white rice paper banner, I saw the four lines of beautiful and beautiful words, which were:

"Today, there are five monkeys to divide the peaches, agree to divide a bunch of peaches, the big monkey is more than five points, take away a bunch of peaches after eating, the two monkeys are also more than one, take away a bunch of peaches after eating, three, four or five monkeys like this, may I ask how many peaches were there at the beginning?"

After reading this question, some scholars' faces became bitter.

"How is this a question?"

As soon as the question fell, Qin Chao's mind exploded, and he only felt dizzy.

"Damn, do you still need to solve this, there are answers that are present!" This topic is so familiar, and it was so famous in the previous life that the Qin Dynasty had to study it.

This title is called 'Five Monkeys and Peach'.

The original title meant that 5 monkeys picked a bunch of peaches together, and because they were too tired, they decided to sleep first and then divide them.

After a while, a monkey came, and when he saw that the other monkeys had not come, he divided the peaches into five equal parts, and when there was one more, he ate the extra one and took one of the piles. After some time, the second monkey came, and he did not know that one of his companions had come, and thought that he was the first, so he piled up the peaches on the ground, divided them into five equal parts, and found that there was one more, and he ate the same one, and took one of them.

The 3rd, 4th, and 5th monkeys all ...... like this, asking how many peaches did the 5 monkeys pick at least? How many peaches are left after the 5th monkey is gone?

The problem of five monkeys and peaches is also called 'sailors divide coconuts' abroad, which was first proposed by the great physicist Dirac, this seemingly simple problem once bothered him, and after hard work, he only obtained a rather cumbersome solution method. In order to get an easy solution, he offered the problem to some mathematicians of the time, but interestingly, he did not get satisfactory results.

"The reason why this question is famous in China in the previous life, in addition to the fact that he was raised by Dirac, is mainly because Tsung-Dao Lee visited the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China and used this question to question the students on the spot."

In his previous life, Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang had won the Nobel Prize in Physics, and it was Tsung-Dao Lee who proposed the establishment of the University of Science and Technology of China.

"Although Dirac did not have a satisfactory result when he first asked the mathematician, with the continuous efforts of later generations, many easy methods have emerged." Qin Chao propped his forehead, "When should I throw out the answer?" ”

With a slight squint, Qin Chao had an idea, and directly pulled a piece of new rice paper, and Qin Chao began to write.

The question of five monkeys and peaches can trouble the great physicists of later generations, and the teenagers on the scene are naturally not so easy to sort out, all the teenagers who mainly focus on learning, that Zhang Jiucai, Nangong Zhong, Yang Qixian, and Lu Baojia all have sad faces.

Under the altar of this champion.

"Hey, do you think this batch of new temple students can solve it?"

"Xie Ye? What are you kidding, even the temple students in the last issue were stumped, can this newcomer answer? ”

"But aren't they also like Gao Mingzhen, who solved the four arithmetic problems?"

"That's different, maybe the difficulty of the arithmetic problems solved by their new temple students is not as high as Miss Gao's, in short, Miss Gao is the granddaughter of Gao Xiangye, who is good at explaining Hou Gao, and her intelligence is famous in the whole Dali, and no one will be able to solve her problems, and this issue of the new temple students is no exception."

Many pedestrians, ordinary people and businesses are not doing anything, and they are waiting for answers, and the entire Zhuangyuan Street and Wenhui Street are going out along the Zhuangyuan Building.

"Gao Mingzhen and Xinsi are on the right side!"

"Come and see, the new temple student has also passed the four arithmetic problems, and is solving Miss Gao's problem!"

A piece of gossip came out like crazy, some of the people who came to see the excitement were just what to do, occasionally inquired, but they couldn't sit still when they heard the gossip, and even rushed to the vicinity of the champion building, wanting to see the competition with their own eyes, many heroes followed, because there were too many people, the street was too crowded, and the people near the champion altar couldn't sit still anymore, and they all squeezed over.

On the sixth floor of the Zhuangyuan Building, when Liu Budrunk, Huang Tiandu, Wu Wanli and others were talking and laughing, eating and drinking, they looked at the Zhuangyuan Altar below from time to time, Duan Lao, Meng Lao, Ben Shi and others were drinking tea, and they also stared down from time to time.

"Humph!" That Li Lao was very sharp-eyed and sharp-eyed, and he had already seen the surging undercurrent on the nearby streets.

"This Gao Shengtai is too unusual, isn't it just a competition, and it can be spread around?" Li Lao snorted.

The old man also had a straight face, "Of course he has to spread it, our batch of new temple faces have also broken the four arithmetic problems, and the results have flattened his granddaughter, and now his granddaughter is embarrassed by the new temple students, of course he has to spread it so that his family can be in the limelight." ”

"Why are you two angry?" Duan Lao smiled, "Shan Xianhou is a bright and upright person, he will never do that kind of thing, those spreads, not the ordinary people in Dali City who have a good impression of this smart and true girl, the people spread spontaneously, there is no need to blame Shanyan Hou, Meng Lao, do you say?" ”

Meng Lao glanced at the street below, and frowned slightly: "It is a fact that the people support the Gao family, is this spreading, regardless of whether Gao Xiang has done secret tricks or not, the people spontaneously spread to watch it, Li Lao, Zhang Lao, you don't need to be angry, Sai Weng lost his horse, he doesn't know if it's a blessing, maybe this new temple student will be able to break the problem." ”

"This time the new temple student, Zhang Jiucai who came last to come." Zhang Lao said in a deep voice, "He is a member of my Zhang family, and he can solve two arithmetic problems in a row, and there is still hope for solving this girl's problem." ”

"That's the other one that's not bad either." Next to the window of this table, the Taoist who squinted slightly and drank tea indifferently suddenly spoke.

"Yes, that section of Haifeng is also very good, hmph, as long as the two of them solve this ghost problem, they will become a shame for Gao Shengtai's granddaughter!" Li Lao snorted, still looking down angrily.

The five monkeys are divided into peach questions, even Meng Lao feels troublesome, can a teenager around twelve or thirteen years old solve it? No one will believe it.