The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

This year is the first year that mathematics is included in the examination subjects.

Some people nervously felt that they were doomed, so they simply went home to study, studied mathematics, and took the exam after two years. Therefore, it was originally expected that about 1000 candidates would take the exam, but only [-] people came this year.

Not all of the remaining 1000 people have studied mathematics, and many of them are lucky, thinking that this part of mathematics should be just a reference and will not have much impact on the test results.

Of course, the imperial examination is still mainly based on the Four Books and Five Classics. As long as the first three exams are good enough, even if the last math exam is average, there will be no big problem.At this time, the candidates at the entrance of the Gongyuan were queuing up and waiting to enter.

There are quite a few peddlers selling abacus.

But abacus also needs to be learned. If you haven't learned abacus specifically, you might as well do it quickly with a pen.

However, there are still a lot of candidates who bought the abacus.

Inside the tribute courtyard, Li Zhao had already arrived early.

The chief inspector of the imperial examination was Mr. Wu Ge, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and even his old man was shocked when he saw the big box of test papers.

It was the first time in my life that I saw such a math test paper, and I was secretly stunned. I don't know how much effort it takes to get a high score in so many math problems.

When Li Zhao took out the test papers, everyone took a small volume.

The probation officer was the supervisory censor, and he began to sweat as he looked at the arithmetic problems one by one.

Then the candidates entered the examination room, and before they actually entered the examination room, they had to be searched by the supervisor to ensure that they were not entrained before they could be put into the examination room.

This time Enke's two gatekeepers are Ning Yuan, the commander of Jinyiwei, and Song Chenxu, the clerk of the Firearms Battalion.

The emperor put these two together and stared at each other, and it was not intentional to play a prank, but to treat Ning and Song fairly.

Being able to take the ENCO exam is an honor in itself.

After the candidates entered the examination room and sat in their own examination numbers, the examiner led several low-level officials from Yushitai to distribute the examination papers to the examinees.

As for the transfer officer, the ceremonial department member Wailang Zhang Guangjian led several low-level officials in the ceremonial department to distribute hard ink-stained pens and charcoal pens to the candidates.

The ink-stained pen is used to write the answer sheet, and the charcoal pen is convenient for doing calculations on the scratch paper.

The fountain pens distributed by the Gongyuan are not really made of steel, but made of wood, and the structure of the nib is similar to that of a fountain pen.

Of course, if you are not used to this kind of hard ink pen, it is not impossible to use a small brush.

The examinee who got the test paper first turned pale when he saw the test paper that looked like a book.

I have never seen such a large number of questions.

Those lucky students have an intuition: this math test is probably not just for reference.

The emperor is serious about paying equal attention to facts and facts!

All the officials present also felt this way, the emperor was serious about raising the importance of arithmetic!

Even the importance of arithmetic should be raised to the same position as that of the Four Books and Five Classics.

After they go home, do they also have to study?

When all the examinees were seated, it was almost time. Li Zhao told the chief inspector, Wu Shangshu, that the exam could begin.

With the bang of the gong, the exam officially began.

Mangongyuan is full of the sound of flipping pages.

Fortunately, some candidates who thought they were doomed let go of the first page of the test paper, and were pleasantly surprised to find that it was all three-digit and four-digit addition, subtraction, multiplication and division!
Except the numbers are bigger, but at least they can do it!

Isn't it just represented by a new number symbol?
No problem, this new number symbol began to spread among the people as early as when Song Jianming rebuilt the account books of the household department.

Moreover, the book written by His Royal Highness is also used to represent numbers with this new number symbol.

Most lifts come with a little homework ahead of time.

It's just some addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems, no problem.

A heart that was terrified of the unknown was quietly let go.

After the emotions stabilized, many people picked up the fine brushes they had prepared and began to calculate on the draft paper.

Do the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers, and the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of numbers with decimal points.

Many people don't have enough brains at this time.

However, this is still a sub-question.

After that, with the score, some began to be unclear.

I couldn't understand the topic, let alone done it, so I turned back directly.

Equation problems.

From binary linear equations to ternary quaternary equations, the difficulty increases in turn.

People who have studied "Equations, Functions, and Linear Programming" have already begun to work hard.

Those who have never studied His Majesty's book at all can't even understand the title, so they still have to leave it blank and turn to the back.

At this time, words finally appeared on the test paper!
It's an application question.

The first question: "Now there are fifteen copper coins mixed with old and new. The newly minted copper coins weigh five cents, and the old coins weigh four cents. Ask: Among these fifteen copper coins, how many new coins are there, and how many old coins are there. "

In fact, it is a simple problem of chicken and rabbit in the same cage. Those who understand it immediately start to answer, while those who don't know the method will naturally scratch their heads and turn back.

It's a pity that the following questions are more difficult than the next one. There are nearly [-] practical questions covering a wide range of topics, from finance, taxation, and food, to calculation of engineering materials, number of people, and working hours, and even the pricing of foreign trade fabrics and porcelain.

In this era, there is no exercise set to do at all, and the few candidates who usually like to think about this kind of thing, like a fish that has been in drought for a long time, start to calculate eloquently on the draft paper.

Liang Huaijun has been doing it all the way smoothly. So far, he has basically never encountered any problems that he finds particularly difficult, and these application questions are very interesting. He even feels that the more he works, the more excited he is.

Some other candidates who were clueless but dared to try began to scribble some solutions that they could think of on the draft paper, but most of them chose to skip it directly.

Only when I turned to the second half did I reappear an easy-to-do task: calculate the area of ​​various geometric figures, including rectangles, trapezoids, triangles, and sectors.

Except for the fan shape which is difficult to calculate, the first few can be calculated by anyone who has learned [-] chapters of arithmetic, or has worked a little bit on the "Six Arts of Gentlemen".

After calculating the area of ​​these geometric figures, it is a geometric problem: There is a triangular piece of land in front of Lao Li’s house, and there are two sons in the family. How to divide this land between the two sons so that the two sons can take The same land area?
This can be regarded as a question, as long as you have learned a little bit, you can answer it in seconds and get points.

Song Qingyue and Li Zhao's examination papers were quite humane, and there were a lot of sub-questions in the whole set of papers to appease the candidates' emotions.

After finishing the geometry problem, there are two arithmetic sequence problems, one for summation and one for term. This is also the content involved in "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic".

After the number sequence is a problem of finding squares, and after that is a problem of "I don't know how to count things" in the classic "Sun Tzu's Mathematical Classics".

There are many ways to solve this problem. It can be solved by using the "Da Yanqiu Yishu" invented by the mathematician Qin Jiuzhao in the Southern Song Dynasty, or by listing a multivariate linear equation system.

If you really don't know how to do these things, you will definitely not be able to write the last two questions explaining the circle-cutting technique and the Tianyuan technique.

During the three-day exam, some candidates handed in the paper after completing the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division on the first day.

On the second day, most of the examinees also handed in the papers. For example, Wang Chenglin handed in the papers on the second day.

Although the topics are all muddled, at least he can write a lot.

There were not many people left who survived until the last day, and Liang Huaijun was one of them.

In fact, he finished most of the topics on the first day.

He didn't understand circle cutting at all, so he left it blank, but there was a very strange question in front of him, which stumped him when he asked to calculate the area between two functions.

It was the calculus problem that Song Qingyue put on the test paper as a prank. Li Zhao scratched his head and thought about it all night but couldn't figure it out. The same is true for Liang Huaijun. He stayed up all night to calculate this problem on the first night, and took a nap at noon on the second day. Time, get up and start counting again.

Counting to the third day, people were stupefied.

If the examiner hadn't come to remind him that the exam time was up and the papers were about to be collected, he still planned to stay in the exam number and continue counting.