Collect crowd into immortals

Chapter 323 The advent of computers

"Ming Cen, your array is the best here. You are in charge of modifying the monitoring array on the jade slip, changing it to be able to monitor three rows and four columns at the same time. No, it should be three rows and 64 columns."

"Jiahe, you are in charge of modifying the manipulation circle so that it can automatically change the yin and yang representations of the rune pieces by monitoring the changes in the circle."

"Qingxuan, then go to the Institute of Arithmetic and have someone design the operation rules for subtraction, multiplication, and division."

"Yes, Uncle Seven!"

"Yes, Seventh Uncle!"

In the Weapon Refining Research Institute, after seeing the power of the adding device, Chen Changkuan immediately ordered everyone to perform their duties and prepare to jointly design a more comprehensive adding device.

After everyone took orders, they left one after another.

As for Chen Changkuan himself, he was also preparing to call up manpower to design a simpler control method and display method.

After all, it's inevitable to have some inconvenience every time you use your spiritual consciousness to control it.

More importantly, the actual operating mode of the Yin-Yang runes is binary, but the numbers they are familiar with are decimal, which leads to the need to convert it every time they input and check the results, which is very inconvenient.

Therefore, this also requires a major change.

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Busy and busy, it will be a month soon.

On this day, in the Artifact Refining Research Institute at the foot of Lianhua Mountain, streams of light flashed, and they all surrounded them.

Because everyone had heard that the Weapon Refining Research Institute had developed a very novel thing that could automatically calculate, so they all came over to watch the fun.

At this moment, Chen Changkuan's courtyard was completely surrounded.

In the middle of the crowd stood a half-person-high machine.

Directly above the machine, a water curtain about one foot high was lit.

The water curtain was transparent, and there was nothing on it, just shining brightly.

Under the water curtain, rows of jade-colored buttons are neatly arranged.

On the buttons, symbols are engraved.

These symbols look strange, but anyone who has received a qualified education on Lianhu Island can recognize them. Those symbols are clearly the calculation symbols of the new version of mathematics.

From 0 to 9, from addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to root, square, cube, trigonometric functions...

Simply everything.

At the end of the numbers and symbols, there is a big equal sign.

These are the buttons of this machine.

In addition, on the left side of the machine is also inlaid with a piece of crystal clear jadeite, which is the spirit stone.

On the right side is a switch button, which means start and stop.

"Chang Kuang, is this the computer you got?"

In the crowd, Chen Wanzhou looked at this strange-looking machine with curiosity.

He was discussing with the alchemists of his family just now how to practice Zhujidan, and he was about to join the ranks of Zhujidan. Unexpectedly, at this moment, the eldest son of his grandson suddenly said that he, his great-grandson Qingxuan and others jointly invented a A machine that can automatically calculate, let its money come to watch.

Naturally, Chen Wanzhou would not refuse.

One is that he wonders whether the machine really has the ability to calculate automatically.

Second, as the deputy island owner, he also knows that one of the current obstacles that hinders the family from entering the rune field is computing power.

So after hearing about this, he immediately flew over.

Behind him, many tribesmen who heard the news also came to see the strangeness and the fun.

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"Fifth Grandpa, this is a computer. It was designed by my grandson and many of the family's weapon refiners and arithmetic masters..."

In the center of the crowd, Chen Changkuan began to demonstrate the usage of the computer after describing their achievements.

After he started the computer, he pressed a button, and a number appeared on the water screen above.

Press a few times in a row, and that number will keep increasing, getting longer and longer.

After pressing the desired number, he pressed and pressed an addition symbol.

In an instant, a "+" sign was added to the back of the number just now.

Enter a number again and press the equals sign.

In an instant, before Chen Wanzhou could react, the result of the calculation had already appeared behind the equal sign.

During this time, there was not even a pause for breath.

No, it's not a breath, not even a half breath, a tenth of a breath, or even a hundredth of a breath.

Chen Wanzhou can be sure of this.

But how is this possible, how can it be so fast?
Looking at the calculation results, Chen Wanzhou summoned all his consciousness and calculated in the sea of ​​consciousness. After a tenth of a breath, he opened his eyes, his eyes full of shock.

This result is actually correct.

It is indeed incredible that a nine-digit addition took only such a short time.

And what surprised him even more was still behind.

After demonstrating addition, Chen Changkuan pressed two numbers at random to demonstrate multiplication.

Still two big numbers.

Still within a time period that even Chen Wanzhou didn't notice, the product of the two large numbers was displayed.

Seeing the result, not only Chen Wanzhou, but Jiang Ziling, Li Gongjun and others also checked the calculation secretly.

Some people count;

Someone listed the vertical calculation;

There are even people who have carried the formation compass.

However, even for the formation compass with the fastest calculation speed, the moment the result is reported, a breath of time has passed.

As for the strange looking computer in front of him, it still can't breathe one percent.

This has surprised everyone.

"It's so fast!"

"And the result is also accurate! This computer is amazing!"

While sighing, Chen Changkuan continued his efforts and calculated exponents, square roots, trigonometric functions, etc. all over the place.

As for the clansmen on the side, they took the trouble to verify one by one.

"Fifth power is right!"

"This cubic prescription is also correct!"

"This trigonometric function is also correct! And it is accurate to forty places after the decimal point."

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All of a sudden, as the calculation results were confirmed, everyone's eyes on the computer were no longer just pure curiosity and surprise, but turned into shock and disbelief.

To know those problems, even if you use the compass of the formation master, you have to go up at a breath, but this strange computer is still less than [-]% of the breath.

The difference between them is more than a hundred times worse.

"Long and wide, Ming Cen, how did you make it?"

"That's right! I checked it with my spiritual sense, and there's nothing special about it. How can I calculate it so quickly and accurately?"

Some people even came up to try it out by imitating Chen Changkuan just now, and found that it was still so fast and accurate.

This kind of doubts among the people were aroused again.

If there is no cheating, then why exactly?

Hearing this, Chen Changkuan and Qingxuan looked at each other, and then said: "Actually, this matter started a month ago, when Qingxuan found me suddenly and said that he wanted me to deal with the Eight Diagrams Stone and the Yin-Yang Stone... ..."

Immediately afterwards, Chen Changkuan truthfully told everything that had happened before.

It focuses on the principle of this operation, which is binary.

"Then, I worked with the refiners in the courtyard to implement the rules designed by the arithmetic masters one by one.

Then, there was this computer.

By the way, this computer was also named after Qingxuan. He said that since it was used for calculations, he might as well make it simpler and whiter so that it would be easier to remember. "

After hearing his words, everyone realized that there are so many stories in it.

only……

"Here, such a simple binary system, with so few simple rules, can make such a powerful computer? Why does it feel like a dream to me!"

"I feel it too! It's just zero and one or two numbers, how can it be calculated so big?"

"And, is it calculated so fast?"

"Yes, yes, the accuracy of the calculation is not very impressive, the key is speed. It is faster than the calculation compass we have come into contact with before, and it is much faster."

In this regard, Chen Changkuan's explanation is: Because of the formation's reaction speed, the computer's internal calculations actually have to be performed hundreds of thousands of times for each breath.

It is only because the numbers have to be decomposed and calculated one by one, so it is much slower.

If it is modified to a certain extent in the future and the calculation process is simplified again, then the overall performance speed is likely to increase again by tens or even hundreds of times.

This is more than that, because on the yin-yang rune sheet, the binary recognition and calculation are controlled by the monitoring circle and the control circle. If they succeed in improving it in the future, making it more sensitive and faster, the overall speed can still be improved. Increase again hundreds of thousands of times.

At this time, Qingxuan went on to say: Because the yin and yang stones are used to express numbers now, the bottom layer can only be realized with binary. One day in the future, they will be able to express more states such as eight trigrams stones and ten directions stones. If the rune piece is broken and made into a computer, then the calculation speed of the computer will increase exponentially.

Because, this can reduce the number of calculations required from the bottom layer.

Of course, Qingxuan also indicated that this requires that Bagua Stone and Shifang Stone will not add too much complexity in monitoring and manipulating the formation.

Otherwise, it might not be as good as a binary computer.

In this regard, everyone was not discouraged at all, but was full of confidence.

With so many directions, as long as one is breached, it will be enough for them to use it for a long time.

If all were realized, then their Five Elements Island would probably be gone with their golden elixirs all over the place.

Perhaps, at that time, they can use this to deduce even the legendary method of becoming a fairy.

Realizing this, everyone present immediately adopted the topic of "taking computers as the next key breakthrough target".

Even on the spot, a piece of territory was designated as a computer research institute in the Weapon Refining Research Institute.

Focus on computer technology.

Led by Chen Changkuan, who was involved in the invention of the computer.

As for Chen Qingxuan, he led some arithmetic masters who were interested in him to assist him.

(Qingxuan is still busy with runes)
On the opening day of the Institute of Computer Science, dozens of interested monks were recruited.

And on the spot, hundreds of orders were received.

Among them, Chen Qingxuan's Arithmetic Research Institute alone requires nearly a hundred units.

Others, such as the Alchemy Research Institute, the Spiritual Plant Research Institute, the Fertilizer Research Institute, the Cultivation Technique Research Institute, etc., have also ordered dozens of units, intending to calculate all their long-backlogged experimental data.

At the same time, in the Institute of Arithmetic, the calculation of personal rune models has also taken off. The project that originally required dozens of arithmetic masters to calculate for a month now only requires one person to stay by the computer It can be completed in three to five days.

The Arithmetic Research Institute with hundreds of computers can calculate the data of 100 people at the same time.

And the progress is almost the same.

So in just three to five days, the Institute of Arithmetic has calculated all the spell models of the [Spring Wind and Rain Jue] for the first batch of one hundred people.

And all are verified.

This inspired everyone's confidence.

Half a month after the popularization of computers, the calculations for the 360 ​​five [Spring Wind and Rain Jue] models submitted before were all calculated.

And the five 360 ​​people who submitted their models also used the calculated spell models to release the [Spring Breeze and Rain Technique].

So far, the standard model of [Spring Breeze and Rain Jue] has been thoroughly established.

And this also confirmed their previous speculation that there is indeed such a common model as the foundation of [Spring Breeze Transforming Rain Technique].

Other models are derived from certain transformations based on personal conditions.

With the result of [Spring Breeze and Rain Jue], the Arithmetic Research Institute plans to make persistent efforts and start the analysis of the next spell, which is [Spiritual Shield].

As a spell practiced by every monk on the island, the number of [Spirit Shield Technique] is much greater than that of [Spring Breeze Transforming Rain Technique], a full three times more.

Even, as the spell that most monks rely on to save their lives, [Spiritual Shield Technique] is far more complicated than [Spring Wind and Rain Jue].

It has a full 250 six rune nodes.

There are more than 3000 lines.

But this is not a problem for the arithmetic masters in the institute.

They have already solved the [Spring Breeze and Rain Jue] before, but this time [Spiritual Shield Technique] is just a little more complicated and has more nodes. They just need to follow the previous method, and they will be able to solve it soon.

What's more, now they have the help of computers.

And indeed, as everyone expected, in less than a month, the standard model of [Spiritual Shield Technique] was analyzed.

Seven or eight times faster than before.

This has made everyone sigh with emotion, it is worthy of the machine invented by the vice president, and it is easy to use.

Apart from emotion, they also focused all their attention on the calculation of personal data.

Of course, because there are too many nodes in this [Spiritual Shield Technique], their speed in calculating personal data is also much slower than the previous [Spring Wind and Rain Jue].

After waiting for eight full days, the data of the first person, their vice president, Chen Qingxuan, was calculated.

In the research institute, when Chen Qingxuan incorporated the calculated results into the sea of ​​consciousness, he activated his mana.

The next moment, he saw a protective shield as thin as cicada wings covering his entire body.

Seeing this, all the research institutes in the courtyard immediately cheered.

"Success! We have succeeded again!"

The success of the second spell filled everyone's eyes with confidence.

[Spring Wind Transforming Rain Art] is like this, and [Spiritual Shield Art] is also like this, so the other spells that will follow must be gradually solved by them one by one.

In the future, all the people of Wuxing Island will be covered with perfection spells, so these researchers will be the heroes of the family, and they will be recorded in the ethnography.

Sensing everyone's confidence, Chen Qingxuan, as the deputy dean, encouraged him and distributed the project's contribution points as usual.

But at this moment, a woman named Wang Xiaoya suddenly raised her hands and stood up.

"Deputy Dean, may I ask if that computer can be modified again?"

"Do you have any idea?"

"Not yet! I just think it's a bit too cumbersome to have to input a large number of the same calculation formulas every time. It's too troublesome!"

Unexpectedly, as soon as this remark came out, several researchers stood up and said that they also encountered the same problem.

Seeing this, Qingxuan said: "Then you all think about it and see how to solve this problem.

Don't worry, you won't lose your contribution points! "

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(End of this chapter)