The correct way to open the elf

Chapter 48 Numbers and Alchemy

"According to the principle of doubling the amount of rice grains I get for every ten kilograms of salt, I must exchange all three hundred kilograms of salt in one go.

So, is there anyone here who is willing to exchange with me?"

After Feng Yu finished speaking, many people rushed to ask for a swap, among which Dick's shout was the loudest. He looked at the people around him with a smile, and felt that he saw a group of idiots. The people around him looked at him with similar eyes.

"I looked around and found that most people were willing to exchange. But Lord Anthony didn't seem to say anything. If there was such a deal, would you be willing to exchange?"

Anthony deadpanned, "Why not?"

Feng Yu looked at the alchemist: "Master Clarence, what is your choice?"

Clarence Lei Yun looked at Feng Yu, who was smiling, and said, "Although I know that the person who owns the salt will definitely get the upper hand in this transaction, I am still willing to make the exchange."

After Feng Yu got Clarence's answer, he was considered to have a say with the alchemist. He stopped keeping the secret and started writing numbers on the blackboard, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16... all the way to the twentieth number, which was 1048576, which was over one million. The thirtieth number was million.

After he finished writing, he marked the corresponding Elvish words under the numbers.

"I like numbers because they allow me to more clearly understand the development patterns of things around me. I have weighed the halfling brothers' rice sticks, and after drying, there are about 1,600 grains per pound of rice sticks.

That is to say, not counting the previous 29 transactions, for the 30th transaction alone, the person who chose to trade would need to pay about 640,000 kilograms of rice grains for the last 10 kilograms of salt, and the amount was 320,000 kilograms for the 29th transaction.

Therefore, it would take about one million kilograms of rice to exchange for the 300 kilograms of salt I have. There is no doubt that no one can afford so much rice, and even if they can, they can't exchange it with me.

See, this is the magic of numbers.

In our place, there was a man who invented a kind of chess, which was very popular with the king. The king asked the man to choose his own reward. The man used the method I just mentioned and asked the king to put grains of food in the squares of the chessboard he invented.

Interestingly, the chessboard he invented had sixty-four squares, and the rich king could not satisfy that man's small request even if he sold his empire."

After Feng Yu finished telling this little story, he looked at the people who were stunned at the moment, and continued: "In our place, mathematics not only includes simple calculations, but also geometry, which is a kind of mathematical knowledge that is indispensable for war.

Everyone knows that the crossbow arrows on the crossbow cart are projectiles..."

Feng Yu then talked about the parabola calculation method for calculating the landing point, and also talked about probability and equations. He also used equations to calculate some problems such as adding and releasing water, and chickens and rabbits in the same cage.

Finally, Feng Yu also explained in detail the applied statistics and digital analysis combined with experiments, which made the alchemist Clarence's eyes light up.

Then, he asked the students to learn numbers and operation symbols and recite the multiplication table, and the math class was completed.

After class, Feng Yu was invited by Clarence to his alchemy laboratory. Feng Yu had been thinking about this tent for a long time, and today he got what he wanted thanks to the power of mathematics.

Clarence invited Feng Yu to come because Feng Yu mentioned in class that the alchemy laboratories in his hometown all used mathematics, so Clarence invited Feng Yu to discuss alchemy with him.

Feng Yu had no idea what alchemy was. Even the so-called hometown laboratory was something he learned about through film and television works.

But this doesn’t pose a problem for Feng Yu, just brag!

Without talking about the alchemical experiments, just talking about the operation of the laboratory and the experimental concepts, he could brag so much that Clarence doubted his first half of his life as an elf.

Feng Yu did not talk about the experiment. He first commented on the fact that Clarence's laboratory only had two apprentices, and told Clarence that the laboratories in his hometown were all large-scale gang operations.

As the head of the laboratory, you only need to preside over the alchemical experimental projects, control the general direction, and then let the apprentices design various variables of the experimental materials. Finally, a large number of assistants conduct variable experiments at the same time, and the apprentices record the data of the experimental results.

In the end, Clarence only needed to observe the differences in the results to obtain a large amount of analytical data and conduct a reasonable analysis.

This idea made Clarence's eyes light up.

Finally, Feng Yu brought out his trump card, which was the periodic table. Of course, Feng Yu couldn't memorize the periodic table at all, but the identity Feng Yu arranged for himself at Clarence was a mathematician, so it was normal that he couldn't memorize it.

Feng Yu told Clarence the composition and connection of various substances, which surprised Clarence. He marveled at Feng Yu's extraordinary research on alchemy. No wonder he could extract safe salt from the sea.

Feng Yu smiled slightly, as if sprinkling some water on him.

He told Clarence that they had only just begun to develop the theory and had not yet developed a complete tabular system.

He told Clarence that the alchemists on their continent believed that the alchemist who could perfect this table and make the correct arrangement of the elements would surely surpass the realm of the Grand Master Alchemist and become a Sage among Alchemists.

Seeing Clarence's face full of longing, Feng Yu knew that this elf was attracted.

The competition among elf artists can be said to be the rare and most intense competition within the elves. This shows that the elves are not indifferent to fame and fortune, but they use this energy in the wrong field. Feng Yu wants to correct this mistake.

He mischievously told Lachlans about the situation of the alchemy industry in his hometown, mainly talking about the thesis system. Feng Yu told Lachlans that this was the way alchemists in their place competed similarly to the way great artists competed with each other.

The establishment of a paper system and related journals is definitely one of the driving forces for competition among great scientists. Feng Yu must trick the elf alchemy world into embarking on this path of no return.

Feng Yu said that when the salt could be exchanged for money in the future, he could fund Lachlans to build a large alchemy laboratory to help him complete the discovery of the periodic table.

He also told Clarence that in his hometown, the unwritten rule in the alchemy world is the right to name. Whether it is an alchemical product or an element, etc., the alchemist has the right to name it and his peers must also recognize it.

Feng Yu also told Clarence about the mass production of alchemical products in their hometown, which benefited life and war.

He told Clarence that in his hometown, due to the mass production of alchemical products, the status of alchemists was even higher than that of magicians of the same level, because a magician's magic could only be used by himself, while alchemical products could benefit every civilian and arm every soldier.

(End of this chapter)