I Don’t Want to Win Lying Down

The story behind the most difficult Zhejiang Mathematical Olympiad questions in history!

This is an article written by a good-natured person on Weibo. It explores the problem from the perspective of a contestant. Of course, it mainly points the finger at the organizers of the competition, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education and the Department of Mathematics of Jiangsu University.

According to the article,

This time may be a change in the Mathematical Olympiad in Zhejiang Province. The difficulty part makes everyone feel ashamed. This blind pursuit of difficulty and difficulty will eventually become a joke, and some people must take responsibility.

The level of this article is very high. Although there is not a single math problem in the whole text, various out-of-context and inductive vocabulary were used to successfully shape the competition into a farce, and those contestants became victims.

at this time,

Xu Mang was lying on the bed in the hotel room, and his brows were furrowed as he read the 3,000-word article.

Although I guessed that the situation would come to this point, I never expected it to develop so fast. In the age of the Internet, nothing can be hidden, but...my buddy has won so many honors, but not many people know about it.

after,

Xu Mang looked at the comments at the bottom, and sure enough... they were all crazy, and they couldn't talk about how crazy they were.

By observing various popular comments, there are basically two things. The first questioner is who, the second questioner should apologize to everyone, and the third questioner should do it by himself, using the knowledge points of high school.

Immediately afterwards,

Xu Mang received a call from Teacher Teng.

Xu Mang!

How is your ability to withstand stress? Teacher Teng asked.

The ability to resist pressure is very strong, but the ability to take the blame is not good. Xu Mang guessed what he was going to do next, which must be to give himself away and attract all the firepower of the enemy.

Teacher Teng said helplessly: I'm not confessing you, I'm asking you... Can you use high school knowledge to solve the sets of competition papers you produced? I mean solve them all within four hours!

hehe...

Four hours? Xu Mang smiled lightly and said, I'm sorry...it can't be done!

...

This... you... Teacher Teng fell to the bottom in an instant.

at this time,

Xu Mang said with a smile, Half an hour is enough for each paper!

...

the next day,

This is the day the team competition begins.

However, all the students are still lost in yesterday's super difficult questions. It is true that one or two questions are sub-questions. Compared with other questions, they are indeed sub-questions. However... it took more than two questions It took hours to unlock.

hope...

Today's team competition papers should not be the same as yesterday, so let yourself go.

well...

I have a bad premonition. Today's questions are similar to yesterday's. They are all so difficult to autistic. A certain student said to his companion, This kind of premonition is very strong...

Don't don't!

Don't be scary. The student said helplessly: It's hard to get through, I don't want to encounter that kind of problem.

In no mood?

It's not up to us to decide.

The student sighed and said calmly: I was thinking about a question last night, whether I am suitable for learning mathematics. I feel...I am still far away from the threshold of mathematics, so far that I can't see the edge clearly.

That's not true.

I was also thinking about life last night. I have always been number one in my class, number one in the whole grade, number one in the whole school, and number one in the district... but this number one is so vulnerable. The student showed a trace of bitterness Smile: The self-confidence that was built up all of a sudden was destroyed... The person who made the question is too jerk.

The two looked at each other, seeing a trace of desolation in each other's eyes.

soon,

The team competition begins,

The first members of each city's representative team entered the arena, still in the same kraft paper bag.

Simpler!

Simpler!

It must be simple!

The dozen or so players in the arena kept looking forward to a miracle that would happen next.

With one command,

The contestants unpacked the kraft paper bag and took out a paper from it. There were not many questions, that is, ten questions.

Do only ten questions in three hours?

I'm afraid not to...

as expected,

After everyone finished reading the first question, they shut themselves off in an instant. Isn't this exactly the same as yesterday? Every word, letter, and number belongs to them. I know them all, but they are very strange when they are combined.

over...

It's over!

This is another question from yesterday's crazy questioner.

At this moment, all the players in the arena are going crazy. Although they are the weakest in the team, they are not so weak. They are just a little weaker than the top players in the team.

but...

Now they have a sense of who they are.

what to do?

How about some sleep?

for a while

Sleeping has become the only choice for the contestants, but this is a provincial Mathematical Olympiad competition. Unless you can't think about it, no one would dare to do so.

It is said that...

It is true that some people slept in the Zhejiang Provincial Mathematical Olympiad.

I don't know how the hero is doing now.

at the same time,

The teacher leading the team off the field was once again full of confusion, why the students in the field all had a mournful expression.

Fuck!

I'm afraid it's still the same difficulty as yesterday? A teacher asked in horror.

...

...

...

I go!

Still need your reminder?

The teachers present were full of helplessness. They never thought that even the team competition would be like this. Will this competition be held in the future?

Although the teachers approached the director of the Mathematics Department of Jiangda University yesterday, the other party's attitude was very tough, and he always believed that the question was not beyond the outline... Faced with this kind of answer, no one believed it.

How could there be no super-class, this super-class is almost gone.

Even if the questioner is asked to do it, it is impossible to use all the high school knowledge points.

three hours later,

The first batch of players stepped down,

The boys were fine, sitting in the corner silently thinking about life, but the girls were a little tragic, crying like big faces.

Immediately afterwards,

The second batch of contestants came to the stage, similar to the previous ones. From the moment they opened the papers, everyone became silent spontaneously, and then gradually died in silence.

break out?

How did it explode?

What to explode with?

This has completely exceeded my understanding of mathematics.

soon,

The third batch of contestants came to the stage, doing the same thing as the previous two batches, trying their best to solve one or two questions, and the rest depends on fate.

By the next day,

The tragic events began to repeat itself, but when the last batch of contestants took the stage, the situation changed slightly.

Dare to arrange to appear in the finale at the end, and its own strength is not impressive. These ten or so people were not intimidated by the fifth set of team competition papers, but inspired some desire to fight.

suddenly,

These ten or so strong players began to write on the draft paper, but they didn't know what they were writing.

at the same time,

In the venue, a young man wearing a mask and a wig appeared.

Huh?

These people can do it!

At this time, Xu Mang, the creator of this competition, was the culprit who turned the so-called math geniuses from various cities into autistic patients.

Originally thought that I could see a tragedy in the world, who would have thought that it would be an inspirational drama.

Not bad!

There are still a few people who can.

Finding a corner at random, Xu Mang carefully watched the performance on the stage, but soon the inspirational drama gradually developed in a tragic direction, and the contestants on the stage began to feel powerless, and their confident expressions became a little haggard.

Teacher Liang!

This topic is definitely a problem!

At any rate, I was the first in the whole school in No. 2 Middle School, and the second in the individual competition in Ning City. In the end, I... The student from the Ning City representative team said with an indignant expression on his face: I don't think it's my strength. Not enough, but the title itself is wrong.”

Xu Mang was stunned for a moment, then looked at the student with a hint of stubbornness and unyielding, but also a little pride and disobedience.

Was it an accident?

result,

Xu Mang walked around the competition venue, hearing all these words. Almost all the contestants believed that it was because the topic was out of line, not that they were not strong enough, and they didn't realize that they didn't understand mathematics at all.

genius?

Elite?

cut!

Xu Mang left the venue silently, and when he reached the door, he looked back.

young people,

I will teach you guys tomorrow afternoon!

...

the next day,

afternoon.

Xu Mang tidied up his clothes, and there was a mobile phone attached to the mirror. There was an image of Xiaoman on the screen of the mobile phone, and the two were in a video call.

Not handsome enough!

Change one! Yang Xiaoman's voice was amplified by the phone's loudspeaker and reached Xu Mang's ears.

But...

But I only bring these few. Xu Mang said helplessly, I have no more clothes.

A man of no taste...

Madam, was I blind? Yang Xiaoman said angrily, Why did I fall in love with a sloppy ghost like you?!

This sentence,

Xu Mang didn't like to hear it.

What is a sloppy?

Can you have a little bottom line in being a human being? Xu Mang said dissatisfiedly: I used to follow the simple but not simple style, but now I follow the casual and unrestrained style. These two styles of dressing are beyond the control of ordinary men, right? Unless they have My temperament and appearance.

Pooh!

Smelly shameless! Yang Xiaoman rolled her eyes: Oh...can you come back tomorrow?

...

I guess I won't be able to come back tomorrow, at least the day after tomorrow. Xu Mang thought for a while and said to Yang Xiaoman.

oh...

After hanging up,

Xu Mang went to the competition site alone.

arrived at the scene,

I found a random position, but there was no one in the field at this time, but as time went by, the teachers and players who led the team arrived one after another, because they had been notified in the morning.

Immediately afterwards, there were discussions in private.

what are you talking about

Xu Mang didn't know, it was probably the words that killed him.

Teacher Teng!

Yes... yes... I was right there, um... sitting in the corner. Xu Mang received a call from Teacher Teng, and the two chatted for a while.

soon,

The person in charge of the Mathematical Olympiad Competition in Zhejiang Province and the director of the Mathematics Department of Jiangxi University came to the scene.

It's hard work for everyone today.

I called everyone over in the afternoon to talk about the over-the-top questions for the individual competition and the team competition. Teacher Teng said: This time I specially invited this Zhejiang Provincial Mathematical Olympiad, and the questions for the individual competition and the team competition Man, let him talk to everyone.

Fuck!

Is it finally about to show up?

These teachers and students looked around, looking for the bastard.

at this time,

Almost everyone saw a young man walking through the crowd, walking to the front of the stage, and approaching the director of the Mathematics Department of Jiang University.

My name is Xu Mang.

The creator of individual and team questions in this Mathematical Olympiad.

I heard you are looking for me?

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