Starting from a Fake University
Chapter 623 - 374: Is this University a Joke? (Please Subscribe)_1

Chapter 623: Chapter 374: Is this University a Joke? (Please Subscribe)_1

When the competition committee released [Problem A] to all the participating university teams, the contestants from the 34 universities stood ready.

"This problem isn’t difficult."

After hearing Chen Jun’s analysis, Xu Bin also looked at the problem and quickly started writing the program to answer it.

Everything seemed to be going smoothly.

Xu Bin’s fingers danced over the computer keyboard at lightning speed, his eyes wide open, hardly needing to look at anything, he could write the program code just by the picture in his mind.

To Xu Bin, solving this problem was like having a fixed formula, but there might be some confusing phenomena during the process.

But Xu Bin made accurate judgments about these confusing phenomena, and both Chen Jun and Ouyang Chen were providing a comprehensive analysis of [Problem A].

Therefore, there was certainly no issue with Xu Bin’s problem-solving approach.

Besides.

[Problem A] was the easiest of all the problems in this ACM competition. If someone couldn’t solve it or made a mistake, that would be absurd.

About ten minutes had passed.

Xu Bin was still entering the final phase of the question.

At the contest, the competition committee hadn’t announced any university team’s success, everyone was busily answering the questions.

Beep!

Suddenly, a sound rang out in the competition venue.

Consequently, the competition committee announced through the venue’s broadcast the first university to solve [Problem A].

"Congratulations to St. Petersburg State University for successfully solving [Problem A] in 10 minutes and 47 seconds, becoming the first team to solve [Problem A], congratulations!"

With the announcement of the competition committee, at the location of the St. Petersburg State University team, a balloon labeled "FIRST-PROBLEM-SOLVED" suddenly rose up.

Solving [Problem A] in just 10 minutes and 47 seconds undoubtedly added pressure to the other university teams.

However, Xu Bin was not flustered at all.

He knew perfectly well that becoming flustered would waste his time on solving [Problem A].

The committee had set a time of 30 minutes to solve [Problem A] as quickly as possible. The entire contest would last 5 hours with at least seven problems, implying that each problem had its own time limit.

If it could not be solved within the designated 30 minutes, then the score for the first question would not be obtained, essentially denoting no chance at the championship.

That is to say.

If one wants to win the overall championship of the ACM contest, not only does every problem need to be correct, but they also need to be done as efficiently as possible with minimal time usage.

The team that solves all questions in the shortest time will win the overall championship.

After St. Petersburg State University solved [Problem A] first with a time of 10 minutes and 47 seconds, some of the university teams, like Xu Bin, remained calm.

Some of the other teams became flustered.

"Oh my god, so fast?"

"This..."

"As expected of St. Petersburg State University. It has won the ACM championship many times before!"

"My goodness, 10 minutes and 47 seconds, that’s terrifying."

Those teams who became flustered had started to feel desperate.

Because for them, competing with St. Petersburg State University was genuinely challenging.

If they took the lead in this first problem, it would not be easy to catch up on the remaining problems.

About two minutes later, the contest committee announced the second school to submit a solution to the problem, which was judged to be ’AC’, meaning it passed.

"The second school to pass [Problem A] is: California Institute of Technology, with a time of 13 minutes and 03 seconds."

The strength of California Technology University from America was unquestionably, becoming the second team to solve [Problem A].

"Director Xu, how much longer do we need?"

Chen Jun looked at Xu Bin, who was seriously coding and asked curiously.

"Soon, it might be a bit slower because it’s my first time participating in this competition. As soon as I get used to it, it’ll be fine."

Xu Bin responded.

The reason he hadn’t solved [Problem A] quickly was not because of the difficulty of [Problem A], but because it was Xu Bin’s first time on the ACM competition stage. Some unfamiliarity, mentality, and environmental factors might have caused his problem-solving speed to be slower.

But as soon as he gets used to the swing of things, such a problem will be easily resolved.

Beep!

"Haicheng University of Transportation passed [Problem A] with a time of 14 minutes and 51 seconds!"

Beep!

"Moscow State University passed [Problem A] with a time of 14 minutes and 53 seconds!"

Hiss!

The audience at the scene couldn’t help but gasp. It was surprising that Haicheng University of Transportation from Xia Country and Moscow State University from Russia only had a 2-second difference.

Both these universities were also famous ones that had previously won the overall championship in the ACM competition.

Xu Bin was engrossed in solving [Problem A] and didn’t pay attention to any external information.

Gradually, Xu Bin found the satisfying feeling of the task at hand.

"Submit!"

From the moment Xu Bin clicked submit, it meant that the time taken by Mist City Arts and Science University to solve [Problem A] had stopped. If approved by the judges of the competition committee, the submission time would be considered as the time taken by Mist City Arts and Science University to answer the question.