NOVEL NEXT Chapter 263 Melancholy
However, Jiu Xinghong and the others still felt very melancholic in their hearts.
Wei Dongyi was indeed perceptive.
But the crux of the problem was that Wang Ye was different from what he had imagined.
Wang Ye was just boasting.
He really didn't have the ability.
But now, since Wei Dongyi had put it that way, they had no way to refute him.
They could only turn their attention to Wang Ye.
They hoped that Wang Ye would refuse Wei Dongyi next.
However.
Wang Ye didn't have any awareness of this at all.
Upon hearing Wei Dongyi's words, he simply smiled and said to Wei Dongyi,
"God Wei is right, so let's just have a contest right now."
Wang Ye's remarks.
Filled Jiu Xinghong and the others with complete disappointment.
It would have been better if Wang Ye had not agreed.
Once he agreed.
Then, it was likely that Wang Ye would lose to Wei Dongyi next.
Jiu Xinghong and their group looked at Wang Ye with a sense of frustrated disappointment.
Why was Wang Ye creating discomfort for himself?
"Principal Zheng."
Wei Dongyi looked towards the dean of the mathematics department at Swan City College of Engineering, Zheng Jian, and said to Zheng Jian,
"I've heard that you've recently produced a set of real exam questions, which includes some of the world's most difficult problems. Can we use them for our contest?"
As Wei Dongyi spoke, because of his stammer, he stumbled a bit, so he took about three times longer than an ordinary person to finally finish his sentence.
"Sigh."
Zheng Jian sighed and looked in the direction of Wang Ye, eventually responding, "Alright."
Zheng Jian gave an instruction.
Before long.
Two printed test papers were placed in front of Wang Ye and Wei Dongyi.
Wang Ye and Wei Dongyi each took up one side of the table.
Sitting opposite each other.
This setup naturally prevented any possibility of cheating.
Even though.
Given the status of both Wang Ye and Wei Dongyi, they would not engage in such behavior, the required sense of formality was still necessary.
Above the draft papers of Wang Ye and Wei Dongyi, there was a dedicated mini helicopter capturing footage.
It broadcast the contents of Wang Ye and Wei Dongyi's draft papers onto the screens above in real-time.
And Wang Ye and Wei Dongyi, they would write their answers on the draft papers.
"May we begin?"
Zheng Jian looked at Wang Ye and Wei Dongyi and asked.
"We can begin."
"We can begin."
The voices of Wang Ye and Wei Dongyi almost resounded at the same time.
In Wei Dongyi's voice, there was an undeniable joy, as if the upcoming math contest with Wang Ye was something that made him extremely happy.
Jiu Xinghong and the others felt sorry for Wei Dongyi.
Wei Dongyi thought he had found a math challenger who could match him, not realizing that Wang Ye was just a pretender.
In Wang Ye's voice, however.
There was a sense of ease.
A sense of indifference.
It gave people a feeling,
He challenged Wei Dongyi, and it didn't seem to pose much difficulty for him.
This gave Jiu Xinghong and the others an illusion.
It seemed as though Wang Ye could actually defeat Wei Dongyi.
"The competition, begin."
Upon seeing that both Wang Ye and Wei Dongyi were ready, Zheng Jian's voice immediately rang out.
And the moment Zheng Jian's voice sounded, Wang Ye and Wei Dongyi had already glanced at the first question and begun to ponder it.
Therefore.
Just in the first moment, Wang Ye and Wei Dongyi started to write down their answers to the first question.
Jiu Xinghong, Zheng Jian, and the others turned their attention to the screen that displayed Wang Ye and Wei Dongyi's drafts, and Zheng Jian introduced to Jiu Xinghong and the others:
"The first question, although it appears simple, in reality, contains many traps. If you fall into just one, it will directly affect the process of solving the problem. And 'simple' pertains only in comparison to the other questions; the difficulty of this one remains at the level of the toughest question in other exams."
Upon hearing Zheng Jian's introduction, Jiu Xinghong and the others began to examine the question.
For a moment.
Jiu Xinghong and the others realized that they couldn't immediately come up with an approach to the problem and were stumped from the start.
They needed to seriously ponder it.
However.
The pens of Wang Ye and Wei Dongyi kept moving across their draft paper.
The speed was fast.
They didn't stop even for a second.
As if their brains were rapidly processing.
Three minutes later.
Wang Ye and Wei Dongyi both finished answering the question at the same time.
Whereas Jiu Xinghong and the others had only just figured out the solution.
"Is Wang Ye's answer correct?"
Jiu Xinghong and the others turned their gaze to Zheng Jian, asking him.
In terms of speed for the first question, there was no difference between Wang Ye and Wei Dongyi.
The only difference that could be discerned was in the answers of their solutions.
"Correct,"
Zheng Jian nodded. "And it's absolutely impossible that Wang Ye plagiarized Wei Dongyi, because their methods of solving the problem were different."
"Whose method of solving the problem is more straightforward?"
When someone is doing a math problem, it doesn't mean that the more steps they use or the more complicated the formulas applied, the greater their mathematical prowess is.
Instead, the simpler the steps in the solving process, the higher their mathematical prowess is.
"This..."
Zheng Jian earnestly looked over the solving process of both Dongfang Yi and Wang Ye and finally spoke with some helplessness:
"Both of them have their own merits in solving this problem, so at the moment, I can't tell which one of them has a more streamlined process."
"But what I can see is."
"Whether it's Wang Ye or Wei Dongyi, the methods they came up with to solve this problem were much more straightforward than what I used."
Upon hearing this from Zheng Jian, Jiu Xinghong and the others felt surprised.
Zheng Jian is the head of the Mathematics Department at the Swan City College of Engineering.
Reaching this position was in itself an acknowledgment of Zheng Jian's status in the mathematics community.
But now, even a person with such a status like him was saying that the methods used by Wei Dongyi and Wang Ye in their solving process were much more straightforward than his own.
Wei Dongyi was understandable.
He was a mathematics genius after all.
But it was surprising that even Wang Ye's solving steps were more streamlined than those of Zheng Jian.
Which means.
When Wang Ye was talking to Wei Dongyi just now, he wasn't bragging at all.
It was because Wang Ye had some confidence in his own abilities.
After all, Wang Ye was indeed very skilled in mathematics.