69novels Chapter 117 Wizards are not good at math
Chapter 117 Wizards are not good at math
The next day's Daily Prophet reported on a mysterious oriental "ninja" at length.
Some people say that he is a master of Defense Against the Dark Arts, because he subdued three "extremely dangerous" beasts with only a few simple white magic tricks;
Some people say that he is a snow mountain practitioner who has lived for hundreds of years, and his magical legends are spread everywhere on the snow mountain. (Bai Lin shook his head when he saw it)
Some people even said that he was a fugitive criminal, and he was responsible for many bizarre cases. Otherwise, why would he cover his face to prevent people from seeing him? (There is always a strong prejudice in the West against muzzled behaviour).
However, no matter what the people did, the Beast Arena and "Night Demons" were completely popular. At noon the next day, at the gate of the zoo on Charles Avenue, there were already goblins selling rough ninja dolls. Once again, Si's reaction and execution were astonishing.
And Bai Lin, who successfully sealed the three beasts, pretended to receive an empty pocket in front of the audience with the words "Bonus 1000 Galleons" written on it, and then disappeared without asking Patrice for a Chimera. The chance of a beast carcass.
And the next game is still a week away.Patrice repeated his old tricks, and had to conduct a week of voting and campaigning, and even played hunger marketing, finding goblins as scalpers to hype the tickets for the infield. Bai Lin couldn't help but sigh, are those marketing routines in the Muggle world all The goblins leaked it?
Bai Lin was too lazy to care about Patrice's money, after all he didn't dare to lose his share, and he also got what he wanted, magic power +4, reaching 73 points, and with a few more rounds, he was confident Rush to 100 and reach Dumbledore's level.
However, on the third day of the competition, when Bai Lin just woke up in the makeshift bed in the underground warehouse of the commissary—now his home—Phoenix delivered a hot breakfast and two owls delivering letters .
Bai Lin was a little surprised, the two owls were very strange, and while eating hot dogs, he opened the letter sent by the owls.
The first letter came from Ron's elder brother, Bill Weasley. It turned out that Bai Lin had asked Ron to ask Bill to help him inquire about the black wizard Mugur.
Bill once told Bai Lin through Ron's reply that Mugur had been transferred to Gringotts in Diagon Alley, and Bai Lin had no time to find his bad luck.
Bill's letter this time is to tell Bai Lin that Mugel is now the door lock inspector of Gringotts, because many vaults use magic door locks, and these magic locks need to be checked every one or two years. energy to avoid failure.
Bai Lin thought of Ron's big brother in the original book, serious, calm, responsible and reliable guy, and felt very grateful to him.
His reply also verified Bai Lin's conjecture that Mugur must have gone to the Lestrange family vault, but why did he want to get the gold cup of one of the Horcruxes?Bai Lin hadn't figured it out yet.
The second letter was from a stranger, signed Yossie Crowder.Bai Lin thought for a long time but couldn't figure out who it was.The content is even simpler. I asked him to meet at a coffee shop on Charles Avenue at noon tomorrow, and we had important matters to discuss.
Bai Lin scratched his head and stuffed the letter into his pocket. He was really curious about who was looking for him, but he had more important matters. Poor Zhuo Bi was still imprisoned in the Ministry of Magic. Bai Lin planned to find Pa Theres help.
Don't look at Patrice as a goblin businessman, Bai Lin recently observed that he seems to have quite a lot of energy.
Bai Lin prepared a big bag of Galleons, and came to Patrice's office. This energetic goblin was doing calculations at the desk. Seeing him counting with his fingers, Bai Lin suddenly became interested in the wizarding world. Economics has a new understanding.
He suddenly discovered that Hogwarts does not teach mathematics. The reason why the students still know that 1+1=2 is because they all entered school at the age of 11. arithmetic, but as we all know, the arithmetic education level of children in European and American countries is difficult to describe in one word. At the age of 11, except for some children with arithmetic talents, others may not understand addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division within 11, let alone more Higher level math too.
So here comes the question, if everyone in the wizarding society has only a mathematics level that has not graduated from elementary school, then who will do many things related to mathematics in the wizarding society?So the answer is fairies.
That's why Gringotts was opened by goblins, because if you let an ordinary wizard manage the money, he might not be able to count hundreds of gold coins.
"Ah, Mr. Principal! It's rare to see you!" Patrice said with sarcasm, and put the account books and lists on the table into the drawer without any trace.
"Ha, Mr. Patrice, I understand that our beast arena was very successful. I was just thinking about it in the office. It is too hard for you to run it alone. I happen to be proficient in mathematics, so I want to inform you. I I will take back the financial rights of the arena and share your worries!" Bai Lin said with a smirk on his face, he knew that if he directly asked this old and cunning goblin, he would definitely refuse in every possible way, so he decided to save the country.
"Ah! You can't do this!" Patrice almost jumped up. If Bai Lin is allowed to handle the financial rights, his profits will be completely exposed to the eyes of the Seeker family.
"Huh? Why? Mr. Patrice? Isn't this my right as the head of the garden? Or is there something wrong with our accounts?" Bai Lin said with a smile on his face.
Sweat dripped from the visible forehead of Patrice, and he said hesitantly: "This... this... mainly because you are busy with business, and financial matters need to spend a lot of time and energy... Human wizards are usually very slow to numbers... ..."
"You can rest assured that I am from the East. Our children start at 3 years old and learn mathematics until they are 22 years old! If you don't believe me, if you ask a math problem, I can tell you the answer on the spot!" Bai Lin said.
Patrice said incredulously: "How many Sickles and Nats is 254 Galleons?"
In Harry Potter, the exchange ratio of Gold Galleons, Silver Sickles, and Copper Knuts is 1:17:493. This exchange ratio is simply anti-human. If you ask an ordinary wizard, how many Sickles are equal to 254 Galleons? Nat, he's gonna go crazy right there and show you.
Bai Lin thought for about three seconds and said, "4318 Silver Sickles, 125222 Copper Knuts." He was a top student who won the first prize in the Provincial Mathematical Olympiad when he was a child, how could this question be difficult for him.
Patrice was taken aback, and took out a small goblin calculation tool, which was a bit like an abacus. After calculating for about 2 minutes, he found that Bai Lin was completely correct, which completely overturned his three views.
Then Patrice asked another question, this time Bai Lin answered faster, Patrice was completely convinced, but Bai Lin thought, as long as the calculator is promoted by the Ministry of Magic, it is estimated that all the fairies in the world will unemployed.
Patrice slumped on the chair, as if he was completely desperate for the zoo's money prospects, and Bai Lin was obviously very difficult to deal with in all aspects.Before, I thought that Bai Lin didn't care about being a shopkeeper, but only now did I realize that Bai Lin completely controlled the initiative. After all, he was the representative of the Seeker family and the boss of the zoo.
"Oh, look at my brain, I'm actually very busy...Mr. Patrice still needs to do a lot of things...It's just that I have encountered some small difficulties recently, which made my other affairs have to be suspended. That's why I put my energy back into the zoo." Bai Lin sat opposite Patras and poured himself a cup of hot cocoa.
"What difficulty? Give it to Patrice, and I will help you solve it!" Patrice jumped up, as if he had been spanked by an electric baton.
"Actually, it's nothing." Bai Lin poked his ear and said, "Zhuobi, do you know him? I've been detained by the Ministry of Magic all this time, which made me a lot of things, and it's inconvenient to do~"
"Wrap it on Patrice!" The goblin slapped his chest hard and said sternly.
Bai Lin thought in his heart: Great, I saved all the gold coins in my pocket!But by the way, how much money did this old goblin earn in the zoo?