flstandardbreds Chapter 155 Emergency Meeting of the IMO Organizing Committee
Chapter 155 Emergency Meeting of the IMO Organizing Committee
Time passed slowly, and with less than an hour left before the end of the competition, the other four candidates from the Dragon Kingdom team also handed in their papers early and left the examination room.
In the end, only Lin Chen was left, and he hadn't come out yet.
"Huh? Yang Zongyuan, is Lin Chen still answering questions?"
Seeing that only Lin Chen hadn't come out, Xiao Li was even more puzzled.
"No, I saw him doing his homework when I came out."
"Yes, me too."
"Me too."
"Me too."
Yang Zongyuan and the other three gave the same answer.
Xiao Li and Teacher Zhu exchanged a glance, feeling as if their brains were not quite working properly.
Teacher Zhu turned to them and asked, "How were the questions in the final round? Were they difficult?"
"It's a bit difficult... If we hadn't done the questions Lin Chen gave us in the last period, I'm afraid there would have been two questions we wouldn't have been able to figure out at all."
One of them scratched the back of his head and replied.
"You think so too?"
Yang Zongyuan laughed and said, "I suspect that this year's questions are beyond the syllabus. Some questions seem to use knowledge of calculus."
"Yeah, yeah, luckily Lin Chen gave us a similar question those few days, otherwise I probably would have cried!"
……
Yang Zongyuan and the other three talked at once about the questions in the final exam.
This made Xiao Li and Teacher Zhu secretly alarmed.
Just as the rumors suggested, the final round of the math Olympiad included many math problems that went beyond the level of middle school math.
This part of the knowledge would not have been covered in the past Chinese math Olympiad teams.
Because the coaching team had always believed that they should focus their efforts on changing the question types.
However, it is clear that the style of IMO questions has changed.
If it weren't for Lin Chen's guidance, several people in the team would probably have suffered a setback this time.
However, they also found it strange.
Since those who received Lin Chen's guidance have already finished their exams and submitted them early, why hasn't Lin Chen come out yet?
This problem had been troubling them for a long time.
Until the bell rang to signal the end of the exam.
Lin Chen only received the answer when he came out with the main group.
"Lin Chen! You've finally come out!"
When Lin Chen appeared in front of everyone, they all gathered around him without prior arrangement.
Chen Xiaoxiao looked at Lin Chen, took a deep breath, and asked, "Lin Chen, you didn't do today's questions several times, did you?"
Did you do it several times?
Why do you need to do a problem several times?
Unless... Lin Chen used more than one method to solve the same problem?!
!!!
Upon hearing Chen Xiaoxiao's question, Yang Zongyuan and the others suddenly widened their eyes.
I've thought of this possibility!
During the training camp, Lin Chen once used multiple approaches to solve a problem when explaining it to them.
They were also taught a method for solving university-level math problems using high school math tools.
This method also played a crucial role in the final, allowing them to complete the final safely.
Yang Zongyuan exclaimed, "Lin Chen! You didn't really redo all the problems using a different approach, did you?"
"Master Lin Chen! We've almost exhausted our brains just using one method to solve the problem, and you actually managed to solve it again using another method?"
"Wow, I'm impressed! We were worried about not having enough time, and you even had time to do the problems again?"
Hearing Yang Zongyuan and the others' exclamations, Xiao Li and Teacher Zhu were both stunned.
What?
Lin Chen did the test paper twice?
Or should we use a different solution?
Although they knew Lin Chen was powerful, they never imagined he was this powerful!
This is incredible!
"Lin Chen, this is the IMO finals! How could you..."
Teacher Zhu was both amused and exasperated.
In such a crucial match that concerns national honor, Lin Chen actually pulled this stunt?
Just make sure your answers are correct.
Why is it necessary to do a problem twice?
It won't earn you any points...
Xiao Li waved her hand: "Wait a minute, everyone. Lin Chen hasn't said that he did the questions again yet! Lin Chen, stop pretending to be mute and explain yourself."
"Teacher Xiao, they were right."
Lin Chen chuckled and nodded.
At least most of it is correct...
The only thing he guessed wrong was that he did each of the six questions in the final round more than twice.
Instead, at least four times.
Some problems have multiple solutions; he even provided six solutions.
Some questions were quite difficult, such as the last one, for which he couldn't find any more solutions and only provided four.
But Lin Chen actually admitted it.
Xiao Li finally couldn't help but stare in disbelief, and it took her a long time to recover from her shock.
He looked helpless and said with a wry smile, "Lin Chen, you really are..."
I'm so bored!
Why bother doing the questions again when it won't earn you any extra points?
Xiao Li felt that with 6 questions and a total score of 42 points, even if Lin Chen redid the questions and provided a different solution, the score wouldn't increase by a single point.
But he hadn't considered it.
What if Lin Chen had done all the questions more than four times and solved all the possible solutions?
……
night.
In order to announce the results of this IMO competition tomorrow.
The organizing committee members have already graded the exam papers overnight.
However, the final score they gave seemed to spark controversy, eventually even alarming Marina, the president of the Mathematical Olympiad Foundation.
She rushed over overnight to attend an emergency meeting.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to understand the situation first. I heard that the grading team gave a student a score of 100?"
"What's going on? Our total score is only 42 points, so why is there a 100-point score? This isn't a middle school exam!"
In the conference room.
Upon hearing Marina's question, a representative from the grading group stood up.
"Dear Ms. Marina, please allow me to explain."
He walked to a projector, turned it on, and projected an exam paper onto the big screen.
“We will give a contestant 100 points, which is decided by unanimous vote of the grading team.”
"Because this contestant's exam paper provided at least four ways to solve each question... even the final, most challenging question had four possible solutions!"
"After careful study, we have confirmed that these solutions are all correct! In fact, they may represent all possible solutions to these problems!"
"In other words, this student actually took the problems in this math Olympiad finals to the extreme!"
"Therefore, after a vote, we decided to give him 100 points! To show our respect for this contestant!"
……
"Buzzing..."
Upon hearing the staff member's words, the senior members of the organizing committee immediately began to discuss among themselves.
Marina, however, turned her gaze to the name section on the exam paper...
Lin Chen?
Is that the Chinese student who handed in his paper in less than an hour during the preliminary round?!