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Chapter 159 Mathematician Solving the Food Problem

Chen Yi took Gao Ming's pulse again. Chen Yi found that his health was good and sometimes was so unreasonable. Gao Ming's recovery was very good. Chen Yi estimated that he could take medicine for another five days and slowly take care of himself. This kind of thing is indeed not easy in traditional Chinese medicine, because Chinese medicine is generally slow, but the root treatment is better. But now there is no Western medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine can only be the only choice. Chen Yi believes that he is still too young and cannot prescribe the right medicine now. It can only be said that sometimes prescriptions are based on luck. Chen Yi sighed. He seemed to have never encountered any difficult and complicated diseases. Otherwise, he would probably have become a quack doctor now. Chen Yi wiped the sweat that did not exist on his forehead.

Then he put Gao Ming's hand back, and Chen Yi said, "It's not bad, Junxin, your physical condition is indeed good, and you are recovering well now, but you can't get oily during this period. I'll make some soup for you and drink it before taking medicine. This is probably about five days later." Gao Ming felt relieved when he heard it. Nothing was more important than his life. And when he heard Chen Yi make soup for himself, Gao Ming was very moved because he said that he would be someone else's retainer in the future. Unless Chen Yi becomes a real rank-up official, they can be freed from this identity. Otherwise, they can only be a little more advanced than ordinary domestic slaves. Life and death are all based on the owner's meaning.

After Chen Yi asked Gao Ming to rest, he went out and called the two guards who helped in the pharmacy that day, and told them how to get medicine. He prescribed a prescription for them to ask Xi Zhicai to help. After that, Chen Yi saw Chen Xiang running over, and Chen Yi met. Now the food is a big problem. Chen Xiang walked over with a sweat on his face: "Young master, the grain statistics have been completed. The dry food is 20 adults for 15 days, and they also brought some unshelled coarse grains, ten buckets of fine grains that were peeled off, and some dried meat and other things. In fact, they didn't bring too much food. Because we didn't want to stay in this place for a long time, we didn't bring much food." After hearing this, Chen Yi grabbed his head, and then sat on the ground, regardless of his image, and started writing calculations on the ground.

Chen Xiang didn't understand either, because Chen Yi used Arabic numerals and there were no such numbers at this time, so the learning of the Han Dynasty was actually very difficult. Because of this, Zhang Heng and Zu Chongzhi and their achievements were even greater. (Zhang Heng, whose courtesy name was Pingzi. Han nationality, from Xi'e, Nanyang, one of the five saints of Nanyang, was called the four masters of Han Fu together with Sima Xiangru, Yang Xiong and Ban Gu. A great astronomer, mathematician, inventor, geographer, and writer in the Eastern Han Dynasty, served as a doctor, Taishi Ling, Shizhong, and Hejian Xiang (my hometown). In his later years, he entered the court for the position of Shangshu due to illness and died in the fourth year of Yonghe (139), at the age of 62. He was posthumously named Xi'e Bo in the Northern Song Dynasty. Zhang Heng wrote "Lingxian" in astronomy,

The mathematical works include "Suanwang Lun", and literary works are represented by "The Second Beijing Fu" and "Return to the Field Fu". Zhang Heng made outstanding contributions to the development of Chinese astronomy, mechanical technology, and seismology, and invented the armillary sphere and seismometer. He was one of the representative figures of the Huntian Theory in the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He was praised by later generations as "Mu Sheng" (Saint of Science and Technology). Because of his outstanding contributions, the United Nations Astronomical Organization named a crater on the back of the moon "Zhang Heng Crater" and the asteroid No. 1802 in the solar system "Zhang Heng Xing". Later generations built the Zhang Heng Museum in Nanyang to commemorate Zhang Heng. However, because of the ancient art ideas, Zhang Heng's scientific inventions have always been despised by the world, which is indeed a great sadness.)

We are still using the research results of another Zu Chongzhi. Although his era was a little later, he was a mathematician in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Zu Chong studied natural sciences for his life, and his main contributions were mathematics, astronomical calendar and mechanical manufacturing. Based on the precise method of exploring pi pioneered by Liu Hui, he actuated "pi" to the seventh decimal place for the first time, that is, between 3.1415926 and 3.1415927. The "Zu Chong" he proposed made a significant contribution to the research of mathematics. It was not until the 16th century that Arab mathematician Al Cassie broke this record. The "Ming Calendar" written by him was the most scientific and progressive calendar at that time, and it was for the astronomy of later generations in history.

Research provides the correct method. His main works include "Theory of Border", "Article", "Records of Different Stories", and "Records of the Calendar". When mathematics was still under strict control, it was indeed too difficult. Once science had loopholes, theology would inevitably occupy it. This is a recognized experience brought by history. Therefore, these things were used by Taoists at that time to refine alchemy and could not be applied to natural production and life practice. However, Chen Yi believed that as long as he supported and cultivated mathematics in the future and combined with the simple method of using Arabic numerals, Chen Yi could fantasize about the bright future of Chinese mathematics, but at that time he could only call it "Han numbers", which was exciting to think about.

Chen Yi was calculating there, and suddenly slapped his head: "Uncle Chen, please let our guards go up the mountain to hunt, leaving five people, and the rest go to the mountain to hunt with bows and arrows. Before noon is now, how much can they be killed? Remember to be in groups of three, don't take risks, life is more important, safety is the first priority, go, don't waste time. Also, let the three people come with dry food, bring them all, don't keep one by yourself." Chen Xiang replied and left. Chen Xiang knew that if Chen Yi looked serious, it would be best to run away to execute orders, which is also to save time. Chen Yi calculated on the ground. Now these foods are probably not enough, and at least one person is half full.

What if that is the case? Chen Yi was thinking about it, his hand was scratching the ground casually. Suddenly, Chen Yi lowered his head and found that he had drawn an apple on the ground casually. Chen Yi suddenly had a flash of inspiration and remembered a question on the Internet. How to divide three apples to four people, the best way is to fry it into juice. Then this question can also be used here. Isn’t it better to cook these grains into porridge? There is no problem with the porridge being thin. The most important thing is to survive this day. The soldiers are almost eating dirt, and it would be good to have porridge. If you think about it in the modern era where you can have enough food, you will definitely have problems. But in ancient times, when everyone was not full, you could not eat a bite and you could not get hungry.

After making up his mind, Chen Yi looked up and saw Cui Hua and Song Liang looking at him. A large group of people were following him. Chen Yi understood that this was coming to hand in the mission. Chen Yi shook the ground in his hand: "Zhongwu, Chengzhi, how did the mission be completed? No problem for fifty people." Cui Hua and Song Liang replied: "My lord, please rest assured, both of them are armed and strong." Chen Yi looked at him and looked like they were in good health, but they all looked like they had never eaten. Chen Yi found that these people were pointing at him in secret and talking. Chen Yi guessed that it was probably his own rumors that had worked. Chen Yi didn't care. He could talk, but it must be effective in the end. Chen Yi smiled and cleared his throat to start speaking.

(End of this chapter)
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