PFC Chapter 12369
Chapter 12369
Chapter 12369
"His side count seems to be a bit higher?"
Fifteen minutes later, Li Tianguo froze, and everyone else froze as well.
Even Cheng Lingyun, who was on the other side of the sand table, looked astonished.
The regular polygon that Lin Yi laid out had far more sides than just a few.
The two are not even in the same league!
Cheng Lingyun's arrangement was a regular 96-fold transformation, while Lin Yi's arrangement had ten or even a hundred times more sides!
Li Tianguo and the others counted for a long time before finally confirming the answer.
"Twelve thousand two hundred and eighty-eight sides?!"
The leaders of Tiangong fell silent.
The key to the method of exhaustion is that the inscribed regular polygon should be as close to the circle itself as possible. In other words, the more sides a polygon has, the more accurate the calculated value of pi will be!
Both of them used the method of exhaustion, but judging from the number of sides alone, Lin Yi's method completely surpassed Cheng Lingyun's.
Cheng Lingyun was stunned for a long time, then suddenly let out a cold laugh: "What's the use of drawing so many sides? Can you even calculate it?"
No one present understood the difficulty better than she did.
The calculation of Bi Yang's regular 96-sided polygon alone was far beyond her comprehension; many of the steps were so complex that she couldn't even understand them.
The opponent has created a regular polygon with 12,288 sides. The difficulty of the subsequent calculations is unimaginable. The increase in magnitude alone is enough to push it to an inhuman level.
This thing is simply impossible to calculate by human effort!
"Grandstanding!"
The bigwigs at Tiangong gave the same assessment.
If the number of sides is in the three-digit range, even if it is several times more than the regular 96-sided polygon that Cheng Lingyun brought out, although it is very difficult, there is at least a tiny possibility of calculating it.
In contrast, even if you tied all those old monsters together and calculated for a whole year, you still wouldn't be able to get an accurate result.
Old Master Zong's face was full of disgust: "This guy named Zu Jun lacks the most basic respect for mathematics and is not worthy of entering the pursuit of knowledge."
"Old man, I have a suggestion: the Heavenly Palace should blacklist this person from now on."
"If he manages to sneak in, it would be a desecration of the entire academic community of Tianjun!"
The group of bigwigs looked at each other in bewilderment.
Although Elder Zong did not hold real power, his words carried immense weight in public.
Liu Aozhi immediately nodded: "Elder Zong, rest assured, the Heavenly Palace has always had strict standards for personnel selection. We will not allow anyone to slip through the cracks and ruin the reputation of the Heavenly Palace."
In one sentence, he effectively sealed the other person's future.
The Heavenly Palace is the core of the Heavenly Prefecture. As long as one does not enter the Heavenly Palace, it means that one will be forever excluded from the core power level. No matter how big a commotion one makes, one is destined to be nothing more than a marginal figure who cannot be brought to the forefront.
Confucius remained silent, his expression inscrutable.
Firstly, Elder Zong's status is not much lower than his, so he should be given some face.
Secondly, even if they had some suspicions, no one knew whether Zu Jun was the mysterious person everyone was guessing until it was actually verified.
Even if Confucius wanted to support someone, he would have to be specific and wouldn't speak up easily.
Inside the arena, Lin Yi, unaware of the intricacies of the outside world, began to focus on calculating and deriving the algorithm left by Zu Chongzhi in the sand table.
Fortunately, his father had taught him a lot of things when he was young, including natural sciences, especially mathematics. Although Lin Yi did not directly participate in the school's exam preparation, he still had a good foundation.
It was precisely because of this mathematical foundation summarized by later generations that he was able to use the algorithm left by Zu Chongzhi with ease.
Looking at the calculation process that Lin Yi wrote down on the sand table, the people outside the venue were completely dumbfounded after only seeing the first step.
"No? What did he write?"
It's one thing for ordinary people not to understand it, but even someone like Li Tianguo, who has a solid foundation in mathematics, finds it like reading gibberish.
Some people couldn't help but scoff: "These things look like formulas? Did he just make them up himself?"
The others chimed in, "He probably mistook this for some other racetrack, right? Does he really think he can just make this up and fool people?"
"These utter rubbish things can't even fool us, how dare he try to fool the Heavenly Dao?"
Only Li Tianguo frowned deeply.
He couldn't understand it for a moment either. The calculation steps shown in the sand table used formulas that had never appeared in Tianjun before.
But his strong intuition told him that everything presented in the sand table at this moment was by no means a fabrication.
Mathematics has its own beauty.
Anyone with a good foundation in mathematics will more or less develop a unique sense for this area.
And what I was seeing before me perfectly matched that mysterious feeling.
Li Tianguo sensed this, and naturally, all the bigwigs in the Heavenly Palace also sensed it.
The elder, who had just been furious and clamoring to ban Zu Jun, suddenly fell silent.
The rest of the old monsters held their breath and focused intently, some even eagerly grabbing paper and pen to begin calculating on the spot.
Liu Ao and the others were puzzled.
At this moment, these old monsters didn't feel like highly accomplished masters at all; instead, they seemed more like a group of elementary school students who had suddenly been introduced to a new world.
He even sensed a fanaticism in these people that rivaled that of believers!
"what's the situation?"
The group of Heavenly Palace leaders looked at each other, not daring to ask any questions, and could only watch silently from the sidelines.
Cheng Lingyun, however, couldn't figure it out and her face grew even more contemptuous: "Truly ignorant!"
She didn't understand the steps in front of her, but she was certain of one thing: these steps were completely different from those in Bi Yang's manuscript.
No one in Tianjun can surpass Bi Yang.
Cheng Lingyun firmly believed this.
It doesn't matter if she can't understand everything the other party wrote down; as long as it's different from Bi Yang's steps, it must be wrong.
There is absolutely no doubt about that!
Soon, Lin Yi had already written down his conclusions on the sand table.
Li Tianguo's spirits lifted: "3.1415926! 3.1415927!"
The meaning is quite clear: the value of pi lies between these two numbers.
There was complete silence both inside and outside the stadium.
An old monster from the Heavenly Palace exclaimed excitedly, "This value verifies Cheng Lingyun's set from earlier, and its credibility is extremely high!"
He was the leader of the on-site verification team. Although he hadn't fully understood the steps Lin Yi had written down, he had discerned far more than anyone else present.
His words were undoubtedly an endorsement of Lin Yi.
Everyone looked shocked.
Someone said in a trembling voice, "If this is true, the accuracy of the circumference ratio has increased by more than a thousand times. Today will surely be recorded in history!"
The set of numbers that Cheng Lingyun presented earlier was already an unprecedented breakthrough.