Scholars in the courtyard.

Chapter 2332 Genius and Machine

The two finished their work and started chatting.

"Jiubu recently made a calculator, you know."

The thin old man spoke, and he seemed to be in high spirits.

The uncle shook his head, "I just got back, I don't know."

"What is a calculator?"

The thin old man smiled and said, "We should let Old Chen tell us about it."

At this point, the thin old man laughed even more happily. The uncle didn't understand why, so he looked at Tang Mingyue.

Tang Mingyue saw the thin old man waving his hand, so he stepped forward and explained, "The nine-part calculator is a small computer that can perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division calculations."

"Chief Chen sent ten people to compete with calculators with abacus for a long time, and it turned out that all ten people made some mistakes."

"But this calculator has no mistakes."

The uncle was very curious about this and said, "There is such a machine? Old Chen should be happy."

"Mr. Chen was originally happy, but Mr. Peng found out about it, and then..."

"Then Lao Peng snatched it away."

The thin old man continued to speak, which surprised the uncle.

"Can Lao Peng do this?"

The thin old man nodded, and then said, "It's for 701."

"701?"

"Yes, they want to run some numbers on a calculator."

Uncle naturally knew the importance of intelligence information.

But, is this kind of calculator really useful?
"I'll go get one later."

"It's probably strong enough. With Lao Peng's personality, he will definitely go. If you want to see it, you have to wait."

Hearing this, the uncle smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. If you can make one, you can continue to do it. Just wait."

701 Station.

President Peng came in with six calculators, walked around under the guidance of several guards, passed through an open area, and finally came to the center of the base.

It is surrounded by high walls and nothing can be seen from the outside.

After the door opened and they walked for a while, Mr. Peng saw people playing basketball in front of him, and there were many people on the sidelines shouting and cheering them on.

Mr. Peng didn't care. He walked around the venue for a while and came to another yard.

This is a yard that is only slightly larger than the previous one, but the difference is that there is no basketball court in the middle, only stone tables.

At this time, in front of each table there was someone holding a pen and paper, calculating something seriously.

And there was someone running back and forth in the middle. Whenever someone raised his hand, he would quickly run over and pick up the paper on the table.

On the other side, after seeing this scene, someone will bring new paper over.

Then the man continued to calculate with his head down.

Mr. Peng did not go forward to disturb them, but walked around to the side.

Once inside, the scene inside was even busier than outside.

From time to time, you can hear someone shouting and a clattering sound. On the huge blackboard in front, four or five people are calculating with chalk.

Mr. Peng looked back at the few people, motioned for them to take their things, and then walked inside.

"This data is not right. I calculated it three times and it looks different. There must be something wrong. I will calculate it again."

"The two numbers do match, but we need to confirm them again. We can't miss any opportunity."

"Director Zheng, there are some differences in these numbers. We need to calculate them again. I would like to request the use of a calculator."

From the chaotic sounds heard, one can imagine how chaotic the situation inside is.

Then a familiar voice sounded.

"Comrades, the code is mathematics."

"Odd numbers, even numbers, prime numbers, composite numbers, multiples, powers, etc."

"Each of these theorems, definitions, has a suitable method for designing a code."

"Similarly, these methods can also be used to deduce passwords."

"So, comrades, we must use our mathematical thinking to think and discover, in order to crack the difficult code."

Director Zheng stood on the steps, holding a pile of data reports in his hand, shouting loudly to everyone.

Beside him, several people were gathered around a calculator, constantly reporting numbers and then recording the data.

At this time, President Peng and his men walked in. Director Zheng quickly put down the report in his hand and walked forward quickly.

Then he politely said to Mr. Peng, "Commander, you are here," and turned his attention to the five calculators behind him.

"Except for the one from the Second Ministry of Machine Building, which they also want to use, we have brought all the others that have been produced."

"Thank you, thank you, thank you so much."

"It's so timely."

Director Zheng said this and quickly arranged for people to distribute the calculators.

During this period, they have already experimented and mastered the performance of the calculator.

As long as it is within the algorithm, it can be calculated accurately.

This saves a lot of manpower and material resources.

"By the way, that one, Starlight One, is a souvenir. I have to return it to the Nine Departments when the time comes."

Director Zheng shrugged and said, "Let them replace it with a new one."

Upon hearing this, Mr. Peng was speechless. This was something he borrowed, but it turned out to be stolen.

More importantly, is it necessary to snatch someone’s first calculator?
Director Zheng doesn't have so many ideas. In his eyes, things are made to be used. Putting them in a museum would be a waste of resources.

If you want to release it, you have to wait until it is eliminated.

"Hurry up, those who have calculators, calculate quickly."

"The others regrouped and continued the calculation."

The people around nodded after hearing this.

Director Zheng then took General Peng into the inner room, and saw someone in the innermost room listening attentively with headphones on, the cigarette ash on his hand becoming very long.

There was another person who, even though the weather was getting warmer, was still wearing a cotton coat with only his head exposed, and he was still mumbling something.

The next second, this person will press the button in front of him, and then a red light bulb will flash not far away, and then the people below will start copying with pens.

Further away there were two teenage boys, obviously twins, who were also wearing headphones and shaking their heads.

Mr. Peng couldn't help but feel curious after seeing this.

Director Zheng did not disturb them but walked aside and came to the rest area.

"Chief, many people here are quite strange, don't be surprised."

"However, I prefer to call them geniuses."

Mr. Peng nodded and said, "Speaking of geniuses, I know one too."

"Yang Xiaotao?"

Director Zheng took out a cigarette and wanted to share one, but he thought that the other party didn't smoke, so he didn't give any more. This cigarette is not cheap.

"Yes. Do you know him?"

Director Zheng shook his head. "I've paid attention to him before. He's a genius with a great talent for learning."

"In simple terms, they learn everything quickly, but since it doesn't match our needs, we didn't invite them."

Mr. Peng nodded, feeling somewhat fortunate that he had not been invited, otherwise there would not be nine parts today.

Just when Mr. Peng was feeling relieved, Director Zheng suddenly changed the subject and said, "But now it seems that I was wrong."

"Just the calculator he invented is enough to convince us that he is a great genius."

"I think this kind of person who can assist in decryption should be absorbed into 701. Maybe he will make a better machine."

Director Zheng said this seriously, but Boss Peng just smiled and shook his head, "Old Zheng, this is not hosted by him."

Old Zheng raised his eyebrows and said, "Commander, are you questioning our intelligence work?"

"We know that it was Comrade Yang Xiaotao who found the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building and started this research and development task."

"It's a pity that we didn't do it earlier, otherwise we would have been able to crack the other party's code earlier."

Old Zheng said this with a look of regret.

I just don’t know whether it’s a pity that Yang Xiaotao was not sucked into 701, or it’s a pity that this kind of machine was not made earlier.

Although Mr. Peng knew that Yang Xiaotao had a high probability of not being able to join 701, he still wanted to remind him that Yang Xiaotao is no longer the same person he used to be.

701Also pay attention to this.

"Old Zheng, don't set your sights on Yang Xiaotao"

After Mr. Peng finished speaking, Director Zheng nodded quietly, then thought of something, "Oh, this is an important word we deciphered."

“It takes a little while, but hopefully it will be of some help.”

"But this time the Fool's Code has been upgraded. We cannot guarantee that it will be completely deciphered within eight hours."

"Fortunately, with these calculators, we can save some effort."

President Peng took a look at the results and saw the word "radar" written on it.

"Is this mission related to radar?"

"Is it the radar of the little black bird?"

Director Zheng shook his head. "I don't know. The information is limited and we have no idea."

"However, since the other party mentioned radar, it must be related to this. I think you can prepare in advance according to this idea."

"The rest, we'll do as soon as possible."

Mr. Peng nodded, thinking that some information was better than no information at all.

What's more, this time it is related to radar, so it is still unclear whether the little black bird will come.

"Okay, I'll make the arrangements. Everyone responsible for radar production must be on high alert."

"Well, I'll tell you as soon as there's any progress."

Mr. Peng nodded and left quickly.

in the office.

After finishing a cigarette, Director Zheng walked out the door again and started his boring but very important work.

He has long been accustomed to this.

As soon as I walked out, I saw a man in a cotton coat slamming the buttons on the table, and a man smoking not far away was shouting a set of data.

Then I saw a row of girls with short hair in front of a row of radios next to me, quickly adjusting the machines, and then recording the radio waves emitted by the radio stations with a ticking sound.

Then another long string of numbers was recorded.

Director Zheng came over, took out a copy, took a quick look at it, and frowned.

The complicated numbers on it are obviously encrypted in multiple ways.

It may even be necessary to design multiple operations to find the connection.

"Decipher quickly."

Director Zheng said something and came to a calculator.

At this moment, a young man wearing glasses was quickly pressing the buttons above, his fingers quickly moving across the draft paper next to him, until the last row of numbers was entered, and then he pressed the equal sign.

"Yes, that's it."

The young man didn't notice the people around him as he shouted loudly, then turned around and shouted to the person in front of the blackboard not far away, "541362 corresponds to the letter N."

Everyone in front of the blackboard immediately looked for 541362, and then wrote N behind it.

Papapa

The people around him immediately responded with applause. The young man waved his fist and continued to sit down. Only then did he notice Director Zheng next to him.

"lead."

"It's okay, you continue with your work, I'll just take a look."

"Yes, Director."

Then the young man picked up the newly distributed calculation sheet and quickly tapped on the calculator.

"Report, 695847, it's the letter G."

"Beautiful, well done."

"come on."

Papapa

Applause broke out again, and then someone made another change.

After a moment, more voices were heard.

Then people started shouting out the deciphered numbers one after another.

It was at this time that Director Zheng realized that the people who shouted out these numbers were all using calculators.

Of course, there was some earlier deciphering work involved, but it is not easy to figure it out so quickly and to report the letters accurately.

Looking at the time, five hours have passed since the first radio wave was discovered.

In other words, according to the current progress, it could have been deciphered eight hours ago.

Thinking of this, looking at the counter in front of him, Director Zheng suddenly laughed.

In the past, this simple data stacking might have given them a headache.

Even if the radio waves are intercepted, they cannot be deciphered.

It only increases worry.

But now, the other party is using machines to encrypt, and they don’t have the corresponding machines, but they have the tools to decrypt them.

"You have a plan, but I have a way to get over the wall."

"It's a pity that there are too few calculators. It would be easier if we had a few more."

Director Zheng showed a hint of confidence on his face, then looked at the twins who were playing not far away, and then he thought of something.

"I can't do it, but the little one can do it."

"Haha~~"