The CEO's office is confused, is this showing off? (Seeking follow-up)

Peng Xun brought Luo Yao to a place that resembled a garden.

The people inside were sparse, each occupied with their own activities.

Some were playing games, others were studying billiards, and some were drawing something.

As Luo Yao passed by the person who was drawing, he specifically took a look at what they were creating.

To his surprise, the person was drawing an EDA architecture diagram.

"Did you design this yourself?" Luo Yao asked with a slightly odd expression.

The designer looked up, glanced at Luo Yao, and said proudly, "Of course, what do you think?"

"Not much," Luo Yao replied with little interest.

"What nonsense are you spouting, you brat?!" The designer was clearly annoyed.

"Your architecture is just a modification of Synopsys. Synopsys holds 4463 patents. If you develop using your architecture, can you guarantee you won't infringe on their patented technology?" Luo Yao's tone was calm, unfazed by the other person.

The designer glanced at Peng Xun standing nearby, their face quickly flushing. Luo Yao's direct exposure of him made him uncomfortable. "Can't I just draw it for fun?"

"What's the point of drawing imitations for fun? It's a waste of time." Luo Yao dropped his comment and headed further inside.

Being able to recognize a Synopsys architecture at a glance, Luo Yao was truly strong.

Peng Xun smiled slightly, glanced at the young man drawing the architecture diagram without saying a word, and followed Luo Yao.

Inside, the people were even more intense.

In the work area, people were engrossed in fiddling with the instruments at hand or staring intently at their computers, all seemingly immersed in their work.

They didn't notice Luo Yao and Peng Xun's arrival at all, until Peng Xun walked through the work area, reached a door, and opened it.

"Hey! See? New people are here!"

"Guess how old this one is? I'll go first, 20!"

"You can't just assume someone is 20 because they look tall! Their face is so young, definitely 18 or 19!"

"Edra, why do you look so excited?"

"Why wouldn't I be excited? Not only is this little brother good-looking, but what if his IQ test results are higher than yours?"

"Higher than mine? I don't know about that, but it's definitely not higher than Sergei's!"

Seated in the work area at this moment were the geniuses from the "Genius Program."

Besides focusing on their own research, these individuals were only interested in others like themselves.

Now that they saw new people were about to enter the testing room, they all paid attention.

It was already difficult to find smart people, let alone geniuses like them. Huaji had only recruited nine people on Earth so far. Therefore, as soon as they discovered someone similar, they couldn't help but want to know more about them.

Upon arriving at the testing room, Peng Xun had Luo Yao sit in the only chair in the room and then told him, "This test will be handled entirely by the machine. Every question you need to answer will be projected onto the wall in front of you. You just need to state your answer. If you don't know, just say 'pass'."

"There are a total of 30 questions, and the time limit is 100 minutes."

"Once the time is up, regardless of whether you've finished, your score will be automatically calculated."

"This score is tied to your rank and salary grade, so answer carefully."

After explaining the situation, Peng Xun went out to make a phone call.

Immediately after, a mechanical female voice sounded.

[Welcome to the test. Please view the questions below...]

[Find the smallest positive integer L that satisfies the following condition: For any subset A of size L from the set S = (1, 2, ..., 2012), there exist three distinct elements A1, A2, and A3 from S such that A1+A2, A2+A3, and A3+A1 are all in set A.]

Luo Yao hadn't done any math problems for a few days, and he couldn't help but feel excited upon seeing the question.

Others saw math and wanted to perish with it.

But Luo Yao only felt joy!

The dopamine neurons in his hypothalamus had been stimulated, releasing dopamine molecules at this moment!

Combinatorial mathematics and number theory?

That was simple.

Since A1+A2, A2+A3, and A3+A1 must all be in set A, the difference between the smallest and largest elements must be less than or equal to L-1, otherwise, it would be impossible to find A1, A2, and A3 that satisfy the condition.

Let A1 < A2 < A3. Let x = A1+A2, y = A2+A3, z = A3+A1. Then x

x + y + z = (A1 + A2) + (A2 + A3) + (A3 + A1) = 2A1 + 2A2 + 2A3.

2A1, 2A2, and 2A3 are all integers, so their sum is an even number.

Therefore, x + y + z is the sum of three even numbers, making x+y+z an even number.

Numbers and symbols flew through Luo Yao's mind. Although each step was clear, it all happened in the blink of an eye for him. He quickly reached a conclusion.

Throughout the entire test, Luo Yao felt no nervousness. Instead, the executives watching his test in the monitoring room became tense.

It turned out that as soon as Peng Xun left the testing room, he had called Zheng Mengrong.

"Director Mengrong, Luo Yao has entered the testing room. Do you want to check on him?"

Zheng Mengrong considered it for a moment, knowing Luo Yao was a special case for Huaji. He put down his current work and went to the monitoring room.

The monitoring room was already filled with people from the President's office.

"Why are you all free today? Aren't you busy with the Pangu EDA project?" Zheng Mengrong had never seen the entire monitoring room packed with people from the President's office before.

Chairman Lu Gao said to Zheng Housheng, "It's because Director Zheng mentioned Luo Yao's IQ might be even higher than Sergei's. I became curious and decided to come over."

"We're also curious about just how high Luo Yao's IQ is, to be able to develop Pangu EDA."

Zheng Housheng chuckled and pointed at Luo Yao on the screen. "Take a look for yourselves. Among the geniuses we've recruited before, whose problem-solving speed was this fast?"

Everyone looked and saw Luo Yao rapidly stating answers.

"Could it be that Luo Yao had seen these problems before?" Lu Gao felt Luo Yao's problem-solving speed was terrifying. Number theory problems had a large computational load, right?

But why did Luo Yao calculate them in less than five minutes with almost no calculation?

"Impossible, the system generates these questions randomly. Luo Yao couldn't have seen them beforehand."

"Wait, look, why did Luo Yao stop?"

Zheng Mengrong's words smoothly interrupted the others' discussion. Lu Gao looked up at Luo Yao and saw that he was no longer looking at the questions. He said, "Perhaps the later questions are too difficult!"

"It's only the 18th question. It looks like he's not as good as Sergei!"

The others remained silent, only looking at Luo Yao with concern.

In the camera feed, Luo Yao sighed boredly and lowered his head.

He even muttered to himself, "Are they all this simple? I don't even want to do the rest, it's such a waste of time."

After hearing this, the faces of the people in the monitoring room became complicated.

Is he showing off?

"Did I hear that right? He's complaining that the test questions we gave him are too easy!"

"Heh, this kid is quite good at pretending! Is it because he can't solve the later questions, so he's making excuses for himself?"

"At his age, if he's this arrogant now, what will he be like in the future?"

"Old Peng, you'll have to keep a close eye on this kid from now on!"

"It's very strange. If this is his level, how did he create the Pangu EDA software?"

Zheng Housheng and Zheng Mengrong didn't speak, they just kept watching Luo Yao.

Soon, Luo Yao in the camera feed moved again.

"Forget it, I'll finish it first. It's linked to job level and salary? I didn't expect that," Luo Yao mumbled softly before continuing to answer the questions.

The smiles on the faces of the people in the monitoring room gradually froze as Luo Yao continued to answer.

One, two...

With Luo Yao's super-fast answering speed, the remaining twelve questions were quickly solved.

[Your total answering time is fifty-seven minutes.]

[Calculating your score...]

Luo Yao indifferently watched the prompts on the wall, wondering if this thing could really measure anything.

Meanwhile, the people from the President's office anxiously watched the wall, afraid they would miss the result announcement.

But after a minute, the test results still hadn't come out.

"What's going on? Is the machine broken? Why is it still calculating?" Zheng Housheng decided to have someone inform the development department later. What program takes a full minute to produce a result?

Could it be a bug?

As a program from Huaji, isn't this embarrassing?

[Congratulations, all your answers are correct!]

[Your IQ test result is: 230+]

For the first time, the people in the President's office saw such an outrageous data point. They stared at the numbers appearing on the wall, again and again.

"Not just over 100 or 200, but over 230?" Lu Gao looked at the displayed numbers, questioning his life, feeling like he was seeing things.

"It's hard to imagine this is the test result. Is the program broken?"

"I've never seen such a high number. It's very likely there's an error in the program. You all saw the system take a full minute to give the answer just now!"

Seeing the others speculate, Zheng Housheng immediately asked Peng Xun to call the person in charge of the "Genius Test" to check if there were any issues with the program.

Soon, the programmer who checked the backend logs replied, "Director Peng, there are absolutely no problems with the test program. Everything is normal."

Peng Xun glanced at everyone else and asked the question they all wanted to ask: "Then why did the system freeze for a minute before giving the result?"

"Director Peng, the results in the 'Genius Test' are calculated based on factors like the number of correct answers, the respondent's reaction speed, and overall answering time. The highest value before was 165."

"Therefore, if the score exceeds 165, we set it to undergo three additional calculation verifications."

"Then why is the displayed result over 230?"

"Because the current question types can only measure an IQ of around 230. Don't think it's unbelievable; the highest IQ that can be measured by questions in the world right now is 230."

"If you really want to know why, it's probably because no one's IQ has reached 230 so far, so we haven't been able to devise test questions for scores above 230."