The association's computing team, on whom everyone had pinned such high hopes, fell. They fell eighty or ninety seconds after Unit One started up.
No one was quite sure which exact second it had been, because by the time the answer appeared, the computing team was still assigning calculation tasks. Everyone had been stunned by the outrageous gap and paid little attention to the precise timing.
This was even with a slight handicap given to them.
Substituting the Devil Race's parameters into the system of equations and converting them into code the computer could run was much faster than the first step of manual difference calculations. Under the computing team's current workflow, dividing the numerical solution for the entire system into separate ranges and assigning them to individual small groups was a preparatory task they had already become highly proficient at.
But on the computer's side, it was no longer a matter of proficiency.
Because the team had predicted in advance that the system of equations used for Devil Race calculations would be a common function, and that most of the equations were fixed, requiring only minor parameter changes for different targets, they had stored the instructions for the system directly in memory. When it was needed, they simply called it up and entered each parameter requiring adjustment in the proper format. Even the final code was extremely short: one call, one line of parameters, one end.
Yet under the "wise guidance" of Jia Xiu, the person operating the computer had earnestly completed the input in a far more flashy and complicated manner.
It was purely to make the computer's operation look more sophisticated, and that was important. Good practical results alone might not earn the highest degree of attention. If they wanted more ample resources invested into subsequent research,