In Wang Qi's memory, monthly exams had basically been synonymous with vacation. The Immortal Alliance went even further—they actually gave disciples a day off before the monthly exam to adjust themselves. Still, the Alliance's monthly tests included martial matters, so an extra day of preparation was only natural.
Wang Qi welcomed this day off very much. Over the past few days, he had been tinkering with something in his spare time. With this full day, he might even finish the research before the monthly exam.
Though this research might not have much practical significance, it was at least something interesting.
Early that morning, Wang Qi ran to the mirror room in the library tower. Exchanging for a specific article did not require borrowing rights for an entire book; one could pay merit points through the Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm and access it directly. It had quite the flavor of paid online reading. Wang Qi quickly exchanged for a paper and began copying it out.
On Yin Yang Yao. Seeing the title Wang Qi was copying, Zhen Chanzi could not help asking, "Kid, are you planning to study finger counting with both hands?"
Wang Qi nodded. "Something like that. It's for cultivating the Yao Ding Suanjing."
In Wang Qi's eyes, counting with all ten fingers—or, in Earth's terms, converting between decimal and binary—was part of the nine-year compulsory education curriculum. In other words, any qualified eighth-grader could do it.
Yet this algorithm, which seemed so simple today, had once been developed by some genius after pouring in countless efforts. The reason later generations found it simple was merely because they had started out standing on their predecessors' shoulders.
Wang Qi had been an outstanding student in mathematics in his previous life, but if asked to independently invent binary, he absolutely could