Chapter 279: Suspected of Cheating? The Author of the Paper Appears
The top ten teams in this ACM-ICPC finals will receive generous scholarships: $12,000 for first place, $6,000 for second place, $3,000 for third place, and $1,500 each for fourth to tenth place.
The finalists will directly receive a trophy, and other teams with higher results will also receive gold, silver and bronze medals.
Results will be announced soon after the competition ends.
First place, Huaguoqing University; number of questions answered: 10; time taken: 592;
Second place, Moscow State University, E; number of questions answered: 9; time taken: 672;
Third place, St. Peter's University, USA; number of questions answered: 9; time taken: 798;
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China's Qingdao University was the only participating team to solve all ten questions!
This result surprised everyone.
The contestants present couldn't believe it. Some people even suspected that Chinese students cheated because the finals were held in China. They suspected that China provided an environment for cheating for students from their country!
The crowd below was buzzing with discussion, and the contestant from Country M shouted out, "No way! (Impossible)"
As soon as this contestant shouted, contestants from other countries became restless and questioned whether China was cheating, which made the organizers very angry.
However, even so, they still had to consider the demeanor of a great power and use a gentle tone to calm the contestants' violent and rebellious emotions.
Dr. Bill Smith, Executive Director of the ICPC and a professor at Baylor University, was originally scheduled to speak and present awards, but the crowd suddenly became restless. After understanding the situation, he immediately took the stage to explain:
"This year's ICPC exam questions were provided by the Association for Computing Machinery. There is absolutely no possibility of leaks. Please remain calm, contestants!"
The American contestant who had shouted "Impossible" again righteously affirmed, "The Chinese must have cheated. The last question involved a difficult mathematical conjecture—the New Mersenne Conjecture about prime numbers. There's no way they could have figured it out!"
There were other Chinese teams competing, and although they didn't win first place, upon hearing the American contestant slander their own students, some immediately stood up angrily and shouted, "Nonsense! Don't you know that the New Mersenne Conjecture has already been proved by a Chinese university student?"
Of course, the contestant knew about this and used it to bite back: "Then you must have cheated. You memorized the other party's proof steps!"
The man was so angry that he rolled up his sleeves. If he hadn't been stopped by his companions, he would have rushed over and started fighting with him.
The scene was in chaos, and even security rushed in to maintain order.
At this moment, the organizers hurriedly found Dr. Bill Smith and other producers to tell them their solution: "...what?!"
The organizer then waved to Su Yi, who then went on stage to speak with Dr. Bill Smith. "Hello, Dr. Bill Smith, my name is Gu Su Yi, from Huaguo Youth University, and I'm a member of this year's championship team. Let me introduce myself. I'm the prover of the new Mersenne conjecture mentioned by the contestant from Country M. It's certified by the International Mathematical Association and the SCI journal..."
Originally, the people at the Association for Computing Machinery were still racking their brains over how to resolve this protest, but they didn’t expect such a big reversal!
Saying that China cheated?
They keep the questions very confidential, and there is no possibility of leaking the questions!
That they memorized the paper on the "New Proof of the Mersenne Conjecture"?
Sorry, the real person has come out directly. Who said that paper writers cannot participate in international collegiate programming competitions?
Seeing that the atmosphere below was becoming increasingly tense, almost to the point of a showdown, Bill Smith quickly shouted, "Silence! Silence! Listen to me—"
The noise in the audience barely stopped, but many people were still agitated, especially the contestants from Country M, because they were runner-up in the previous two sessions. It was okay to lose to Country E, but why did they lose to China?
China didn’t even make it into the top ten last year!
"Now that China has provided sufficient evidence to prove that they did not cheat, we would like to invite this Chinese lady to speak," Dr. Bill Smith said quickly.
The organizer had already given Su Yi a microphone.
She stood on the stage, calm and composed, without showing any nervousness or indignation.
Almost all the contestants from China recognized Gu Suyi, especially since the lucky draw message he forwarded on Weibo had gone viral, so most of the college students knew that Gu Suyi was going to attend the International Mathematics Forum Exchange Meeting, and that he was the one who proved the New Mersenne Conjecture!
Now the male classmate who had been eager to start a fight finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then gloatedly raised his middle fingers with both hands to the M country player. This is an internationally used gesture.
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