Chapter 51
Chapter 51 – 1+1=?
The next day, Wednesday, inside Sixth High’s Class 2-2…
Leaning back in his chair, Chen Yu paid full attention to his form teacher’s class. Occasionally, he would also write and draw things in his notebook.
Brr! Brr, Brr!
Suddenly, the phone in his pocket started vibrating. Upon taking it out, he discovered that Transdimensional Marketing’s staff had sent him a message.
[Transdimensional Marketing: “Congratulations, Mr. Chen! Your true subscriber count has broken past the 30,000 threshold already!”]
Chen Yu was stunned when he read the message. After snapping out of his daze, he excitedly typed a reply.
[Chen Yu: “30,000? Did it just break through?”]
“Right. How should I solve it? What’s the concept behind it?”
“This question…” After studying the question for a while, the math teacher shrugged and said, “I don’t know, either.”
“?”
“It’s too difficult. None of the teachers in the school know how to solve it.”
“Then, why did you even put this question in there?!” Chen Yu bellowed.
“It’s because we don’t know how to solve it that we put it in there,” the math teacher said. Scratching his head, he continued, “We wanted to see if there were any students that knew how to solve it. Unfortunately, we found out that the students didn’t know, either.”
Chen Yu: “…”
“Student Chen Yu, don’t look at me like that. There are no perfect humans. Even Einstein had problems he didn’t know how to solve, right? You shouldn’t impose your opinions on others.”
“Do you think you sound very logical?”
“In any case, I don’t know how to solve it,” the math teacher said. Puffing up his chest proudly, he continued, “On what basis must teachers know how to solve the questions they give out? Aren’t the mathematics world’s three major conjectures unsolvable as well?”
Chen Yu: “…”
“I don’t know.”
“…Fine. Fine, fine, fine.” Breathing out a deep sigh, Chen Yu nodded and pointed to the second most difficult problem in the test paper and asked, “What about this one? It’s very difficult, as well. I can’t grasp the concept behind it.”
“This question?” After taking a serious look at the question, the math teacher said, “I don’t know.”
“You damned…”
“It’s too difficult. I think only Sixth High’s top student managed to answer it correctly.”
“A student managed to answer it, yet you don’t know how?”
“Then, if there are students that know how to dance, why don’t you know how to dance too?”
“Are these two things even related to each other?!”
“In any case, I don’t know how to answer that question.”
“Fine, fine, fine. You win.” After flipping to another page, Chen Yu pointed at a fill-in-the-blank question and asked, “What about this one?”
“Don’t know.”
“This?”
“I don’t know that, either.”
“This…”
“Oh, I don’t know that, either.”
After a moment of silence, Chen Yu asked, “Then, do you know what’s 1+1?”
At Chen Yu’s question, the math teacher’s eyes glowed immediately. He then grabbed a piece of chalk and started frenziedly writing formulas on the blackboard!
[1+1 proves that:
∵ The successor number of 1+1 is a successor number of 1, which is 3,
∴ The successor of 2 is 3.
According to Peano axioms ③, 1+1=…]
Under Chen Yu’s shocked gaze, the math teacher spent five minutes filling up the entire blackboard with formulas. After pondering for a minute while hugging his shoulders, the math teacher finally wrote a number after the “=” symbol.
[1+1 = 13,627]
Finally, Chen Yu’s mouth fell wide open.