Chapter 66

First day of IMO.

The atmosphere in the lounge became increasingly dull as time went by.

Gu Lu, who was frustrated by the speed of the Internet, gave up the idea of ​​playing games and started reading novels on his mobile phone.

It was two thirty in the afternoon and the exam had been going on for one hour and thirty minutes.

In the quiet lounge where you could hear the drop of a needle, several team leaders who were sitting in front of them and staring at the monitor screen suddenly screamed, "Someone has finished the second question!"

"What, someone has already finished the second question!!"

The whole lounge instantly became commotion.

Many team leaders stood up at the same time and hurried to the monitoring screen.

"Who, who, and which country are they from?" The team leader who did not come forward could only ask anxiously, "Are they from Sweden?"

"Haha, Pylos, what are you thinking about? I think you know better than me whether this person is from Sweden, right?" In front of the monitoring screen, the German team leader teased without leaving any trace.

The Swedish team leader couldn't help but blush.

Although he knew that the chance of this person being one of their Swedish players was almost zero.

But, what if...

Dreams have to be had after all.

Even though the Swedish team ranked only 27th last year.

"Which country is it from? Tell me quickly?" The national team leaders behind, whose monitor screens were completely blocked by the leaders in front of them, asked eagerly.

The German team leader looked at Gu Lu sitting on the sofa and signaled to everyone, "China."

"This person is the Chinese team member who was the first to finish the first question just now." The German team leader said with a serious look on his face.

Everyone who heard this information looked at Gu Lu.

Gu Lu naturally noticed everyone's gaze, raised his head, smiled kindly at everyone, and then continued to read the novel with his head down.

"Oh! This author broke the chapter again!"

Gu Lu complained, but still collected the recommendations and started walking.

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In the venue.

In addition to everyone in the lounge on the second floor who noticed that Bi Qi had finished answering the second question, another person also noticed this.

That is classmate Jin Antai who is sitting on Bi Qi’s left hand side.

In fact, when he learned that Bi Qi had completed the answer to the first question earlier than him, Jin Antai used the corner of his eyes to pay attention to Bi Qi's progress from time to time.

He has great confidence. In the second question, as long as he speeds up, he can overtake in the corner and catch up with Bi Qi's speed.

Since there are three questions on the IMO test paper, questions one and two are printed on the front, and question three is printed on the back.

Bi Qi did not deliberately lower the sound of turning pages.

So as soon as he heard the sound from Bi Qi's side, classmate Jin Antai subconsciously looked away.

So, we saw Bi Qi turning over the paper and preparing to solve the third question.

Jin Antai was stunned on the spot.

He...why is he so fast!

This completely exceeded Jin Antai's expectations.

He was slower than Bi Qi on the first question, which was indeed good, but the difference was only a few minutes.

As for the second question, Jin Antai had an idea for solving the problem after thinking about it for less than five minutes.

But now nearly an hour has passed, and he has only completed half of the second question.

The main reason is that the steps are too complicated and the calculation process is not simple.

And what about Bi Qi?

Even if he was like me and came up with the idea in a short time, it wouldn't be so fast.

Moreover, during the glance just now, Jin Antai noticed that the answer Bi Qi wrote in the blank of the second question was not as long as he imagined, but much shorter!

Fast and short!

Could it be that he didn’t use the same solution as me?

Jin Antai guessed so.

In fact, he guessed well.

In the second question, Bi Qi used the Lagrange multiplier method, which is natural and simple.

Jin Antai, on the other hand, used the knowledge of inequalities and recursive sequences used in the standard answers.

Therefore, Bi Qi is superior to Jin Antai in terms of speed and length.

Upon noticing this situation, classmate Jin Antai became uneasy again.

This unsettling situation is even worse than the first time.

After all, the first time, we were only a few minutes behind.

But this time, it was a full hour behind!

It goes without saying what an hour means in the IMO arena.

The difficulty of today's second question is already this, so the difficulty of the third question will definitely not be lower than that of the second question.

According to the normal progress, it would take him another hour to complete the second question.

At that time, the remaining exam time was only two hours.

In two hours, can he solve the third question?

Perhaps before the exam, Jin Antai can give a positive answer.

But now, after seeing how difficult the second question is, Jin Antai is not even 50% sure.

But what about Bi Qi?

He had three full hours.

Even if you grind hard for a long time, you can still get more than half of the points.

Jin Antae is a player with a bad mentality.

Team leader Park Changqu of South Korea has also discovered this a long time ago.

The waves go with the wind, and the waves collapse against the wind.

But Jin Antai's strength is too strong.

In ten tests, Kim Antae will be ranked first in seven out of ten tests.

After some weighing, Park Changqu still added Jin Antai to the national team roster and hired a psychiatrist to follow the team throughout the entire process.

So now, although Jin Antai's mentality has collapsed after being stimulated by Bi Qi, it is only a small collapse.

Within controllable range.

Jin Antai resisted looking at Bi Qi, picked up his previous thoughts, and continued to calculate on the scratch paper.

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"Hey, this question is a bit difficult!"

Bi Qi scratched his head and looked at the last question on the test paper with a tangled expression.

He has been reading this question for more than ten minutes, and several solutions have come to his mind, but he has rejected them one by one.

But Bi Qi had a feeling that he was very close to the correct direction of solving the problem.

What's worse, it was just a flash of inspiration.

In the lounge, Bi Qi, as the first contestant to challenge the third question, naturally received special attention.

Seeing Bi Qi's frowning face on the monitoring screen, a team leader said with a smile, "It seems that this guy from the Chinese team was stumped by the third question."

The other team leaders crossed their arms and laughed in agreement with gloating.

After all, they are competitors.

The members of the Chinese national team were frustrated and they were happy to see this kind of scene.

Pu Changqu, who looked nervous, also smiled relaxedly.

So what if the speed is faster?

The third question is simply not a difficulty that the following group of students can overcome.

Park Changqu's requirements for the members of the Korean team are not very high. The first two questions are guaranteed to be correct. As for the third question...just let it happen.

Anyway, looking at the state of this member of the Chinese national team, the third question is equally difficult.

A team leader from a small country stared at Bi Qi on the screen, picked up the coffee, and took a sip, "Haha, I knew that there would be no question as difficult as the third question..."

Halfway through the sentence, the man seemed to have been suddenly strangled by the neck. He made no sound, but stared at the screen with his eyes wide open in disbelief.

The rest of the people had equally shocked faces.

Because Bi Qi on the surveillance screen... started writing!

Gu Lu leaned on the sofa, shaking a cup of coffee in his right hand, and shook his head, "This can't work. It's a lot slower than I thought!"

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Chapter completed!