Connor's Hogwarts

"Connor, what do you want to show me? It's mysterious."

Professor Victor took Connor back to the office, and the question of the two numbers really aroused her curiosity.

Connor walked to the desk and said while cleaning the table: "Professor, how much do you know about the Muggle world?"

Professor Victor frowned: "Why are you asking this? You know I have no interest in the Muggle world. You should ask that stupid girl Caridi about this kind of thing. You should ask Professor Bubbaji." right."

Caredi Bubbaji is the professor of Muggle Studies at Hogwarts. He is a Hufflepuff who comes from a traditional wizarding family, but he is very interested in the Muggle world. He often writes about Muggles in newspapers and magazines. The melons and Muggle-born wizards spoke out.

Because Divination, Muggle Studies and Arithmancy are elective courses taught at the same time, and Professor Victor has always been dissatisfied with the school's inclusion of Arithmancy with the other two useless courses, so The relationship between these professors has never been good.

Connor has never taken a Muggle Studies class and is not familiar with Professor Boubage. In his opinion, Professor Boubage is a warm-hearted pacifist at best, but a "witch traitor" with a crooked butt at worst. , of course, this is just his own opinion, after all, he and Professor Bubbaji have not spoken a few words.

Connor shrugged: "It's not that I'm arrogant, but I feel that Professor Bubbaji's understanding of the Muggle world may not be as deep as mine."

"Ha, I believe you, that guy Bubaji is just half a bucket of water."

Professor Victor seemed to be in a good mood after hearing this, "Okay, let's stop chatting here. Connor, just explain your purpose of coming. As for the question about the Muggle world just now, I haven't been to the Muggle world for more than ten years. After shopping around, if you want to ask me about Muggle things, I definitely won't be able to answer you."

"Okay, let's get down to business. Actually, I mainly want you to take a look at this." Connor reached into his arms and took out the large monitor, host, keyboard and mouse from his pocket.

".Connor" Professor Victor hesitated, "What new Muggle machine is this?"

"Yeah, they called it the personal computer."

"Computer? What is this for..." Victor read this unfamiliar word, and then looked at Connor who was still busy next to him, "Connor, what are you doing?"

I saw Connor skillfully connecting the computer, and then took out a pre-drawn painting, and took out a power strip from the painting.

"Of course it's powered. Professor, you should know that Muggles use electricity, right? Their machines all use electricity. There is no electricity in the school, so I have to bring it myself."

Professor Victor pretended to be calm and said "Yeah", and after two or three seconds, he spoke again:

"Of course I know this. I have read the book "Family Life and Social Habits of British Muggles", and I almost understood it after reading it once. Muggle inventions are just like that. These things are not useful at all. Needs to be studied as a course”

"." That book is the designated textbook for the Muggle Studies class, and Connor has also read it. It is still very novel to understand Muggles from the perspective of wizards, but Connor doesn't think Professor Victor relies solely on a popular science book. How much can you learn about the Muggle world through books?

Connor plugged in the power supply, and the stable current simulated by the magic painting allowed the computer to start successfully. As long as the magic painting was replenished with magic power, it would continuously and stably produce electricity. This magic version of the power supply was much easier to use than a generator.

Victor looked down at the flickering computer screen and said, "Is this the Muggle machine you showed me? What is it used for? Does it blow air automatically? Or is it used to heat food?"

It seems that our professor's impression of Muggle machines only stops at electric fans and induction cookers. Connor chuckled and did not explain. He made way for the professor and asked the professor to take a seat: "Professor Victor, do you want to come? Experience it for yourself. This personal computer uses the latest version of Windows 3.1 system, which is rare even in the Muggle world."

"." Professor Victor didn't understand what Connor was talking about at all, but she didn't want to spoil the promising student's interest, so she had no choice but to sit down, "Then how to use this? What's the use?"

"...It's actually very simple. Professor, have you ever used Facebook? Just think of it as the Muggle version of Facebook. Do you see this white arrow? You can control it by holding the mouse."

Connor was instructing the professor to use the computer. Victor was fumbling with the use of the computer while frowning and complaining. At one moment, he said that this operating system was too troublesome, and at another, he said that this broken machine didn't know how to adapt...

It was not until after playing a game of Minesweeper that Professor Victor slowly fell silent.

Professor Victor looked at the large head-up display in front of him for a while, then turned to look at Connor with bright eyes: "How is this done? This is not magic. I don't feel any magic fluctuations. This is obviously a dead thing. Why can you interact with me and get so many responses? This is not magic."

Connor grinned unkindly. Subverting the three views of a rigid traditional wizard was so pleasant. He seemed to have found a new kind of fun.

"Professor, do you remember that I said I wanted to explore a topic about 0 and 1?" Connor pointed to the big head machine, "Look, the topic I mentioned is right here."

"What does this have to do with these two numbers?"

"Professor, do you know binary?"

Professor Victor's expression continued to be blank, okay, wizards don't learn binary in their math class, no, there is no math class at Hogwarts.

Although wizards also learn arithmetic, they do not study mathematics. Even the mathematics level of Professor Victor, who is the best in arithmetic in the school, is not much higher than that of high school students. Wizards really don't know much about the Muggle academic world.

"Just like our currency system, binary is a counting system based on 2, which was proposed by the German mathematician Leibniz hundreds of years ago." Connor talked eloquently, and the editor-in-chief said: The discussion lasted several minutes.

"...Oh, that's a number calculation system, right? Then what?" Professor Victor listened silently and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she understood this, otherwise she would really lose face in front of the students.

Then he heard Connor say

"...Now that you have a brief understanding of this, let's talk about the basic principles of computers in detail. First, we have to start with the man named John von Neumann."

Another ten minutes later.

"The emergence of large-scale integrated circuits has greatly promoted the development of personal computers. You see, there are tens of millions of circuit transistors on this small central processor, and they can perform operations at a speed of hundreds of millions per second. High-speed computing, as demonstrated in concrete terms, has become what you call "non-magic" human-computer interaction..."

"..." Professor Victor pushed up his glasses. He wanted to drink water tactically but found that there was no water in the glass. He wanted to interrupt Connor's "popular science" but was too embarrassed to say it. His mood was very subtle for a moment.

"...So, this computer can be said to be based on binary 0s and 1s, with infinite possibilities, a miracle of human wisdom!"

Connor ended the popular science class with a sigh, and then looked at Professor Victor with bright eyes:

"So professor, do you understand?"

"..." I understand you are a hammer... Professor Victor wanted to curse, but this was not in line with her personality, so she pushed up her slightly slipped glasses again and said calmly:

"I...I probably understand...I didn't expect Muggles to be able to make such...magical machines. It seems that I was too prejudiced against Muggles in the past. I must admit that this machine...is a great invention comparable to the magic scroll..."

The magic scroll may not be qualified to compare with this. Connor smiled, pulled the keyboard and mouse in front of the professor, opened the calculator that came with the computer, clicked randomly, pressed Enter hard, and then turned around and said:

"Professor, look at this computer. Just input a few data, and no matter how complex the calculation is, it can calculate the answer in one go. What do you think of this function?"

"Huh? This is just the ability to calculate quickly, right? It's nothing. We wizards can also do this easily. For example, using our arithmetic divination, we can even directly ignore the process..."

Professor Victor's drinking hand froze in the air, and a flash of inspiration flashed away. She seemed to have caught something, but she couldn't figure it out, so she turned her head and looked at the "culprit".

Sure enough, Connor smiled crookedly and said, "Professor, have you also noticed? Our arithmetic divination and computers have something in common...or, in other words, does our arithmetic divination...look like the [computer] that belongs to our wizards? ?”

Professor Victor was so excited that he shouted: "Connor, do you know what you are talking about? This... this is not magic!"

Connor raised his hand and signaled the professor to calm down: "Professor Victor, it's too early to say anything now. This is just a guess on my part. We don't know what the final result will be..."

"...I just don't know...professor, are you interested in my subject?"