Connor's Hogwarts

Chapter 424 When a Magician Meets a Computer

"Connor, what exactly do you want to show me? It's mysterious."

Professor Victor took Connor back to the office, and the question of the two numbers really aroused her curiosity.

Connor walked to the desk and said while cleaning the table, "Professor, how much do you know about the Muggle world?"

Professor Victor frowned: "Why do you ask this, you know I'm not interested in the Muggle world, you should ask that stupid girl Caredy about this kind of thing, you should ask Professor Bubbaji right."

Caredy Bubbaji is a professor of Muggle studies at Hogwarts, a Hufflepuff from a traditional wizarding family, but is very interested in the world of Muggles, and often writes for Muggles in newspapers and magazines. Muggle and Muggle-born wizards speak.

Because Divination, Muggle Studies and Arithmetic Divination are elective courses taught at the same time, and Professor Victor has always been dissatisfied with the school's juxtaposition of Arithmetic Divination and the other two useless courses, so The relationship between these professors has never been good.

Connor has never taken a Muggle studies class, and he is not familiar with Professor Bubaji. In his opinion, Professor Bubaji is a warm-hearted pacifist at best, but a "witch" with a crooked ass at worst. , Of course, this is just his own opinion, after all, he and Professor Bubaji have not spoken a few words.

Connor shrugged: "It's not that I'm arrogant, but I think Professor Bubbaji's understanding of the Muggle world may not be as deep as mine."

"Ha, I believe you, that Bubbaji guy is a half bucket"

Professor Victor seemed to be in a good mood when he heard this, "Okay, let's stop chatting here, Connor, just explain why you are here, as for the Muggle world just now, I haven't been to the Muggle world for more than ten years I’ve been around, if you want to ask me about Muggles, I’m sure I can’t answer you.”

"Okay, let's get down to business. In fact, I mainly want you to see this." Connor reached into his arms and took out a large head-up display, a host computer, a keyboard and a mouse from his pockets.
"Connor" Professor Victor hesitated, "What new Muggle machine is this?"

"Yes, they call it a personal computer."

"Computer? What is this for..." Victor said this unfamiliar word, and then looked at Connor who was still busy beside him, "Connor, what are you doing here?"

I saw Connor skillfully connected the computer, then took out a picture he had drawn in advance, and took out the power strip from the picture.

"Of course it's electricity. Professor, you should know that Muggles use electricity, right? Their machines all use electricity. There is no electricity in the school, so I can only bring it myself."

Professor Victor pretended to be calm and said "um", and it took two or three seconds before he spoke again:
"Of course I know this. I've read the book "Family Life and Social Habits of British Muggles", and I can figure it out after reading it once. Muggle inventions are just like that. needs to be learned as a course”

"." That book is the designated textbook for the Muggle Studies class, and Connor has also read it. It is still very novel to understand Muggles from the perspective of wizards, but Connor does not think that Professor Victor only relies on a popular science How Much Can Books Learn About the Muggle World
Connor plugged in the power supply, and the stable current simulated by the magic painting allowed the computer to start up successfully. As long as the magic power was added to the magic painting, it would continuously and stably produce electricity. This magic version of the power supply is much easier to use than a generator.
Victor looked down at the flickering computer screen and said, "This is the Muggle machine you showed me? What is it for? Does it blow air automatically? Or is it used to heat food?"

It seems that our professor's impression of Muggle machines is only on electric fans and induction cookers. Connor smiled and did not explain. He moved his seat and asked the professor to take a seat: "Professor Victor, do you want to come?" Try it yourself. This personal computer uses the latest version of Windows 3.1 system, which is rare in the Muggle world."

"." Professor Victor couldn't understand what Connor was saying, but she didn't want to spoil the interest of this promising student, so she sat down helplessly, "Then how can this be used? What's the use?"

"...It's actually very simple. Professor, you have used Facebook. Just think of it as a Muggle version of Facebook. Do you see this white arrow? You can control it by holding the mouse."

Connor instructed the professor to use the computer, while Victor groped to use it, frowning and complaining, saying that this operating system is too troublesome, and then saying that this broken machine does not know how to work...

It wasn't until after playing a game of minesweeper that Professor Victor slowly fell silent.

Professor Victor looked at the large head-up display in front of him for a while, and then turned his head to look at Connor with piercing eyes: "This...how did it happen? This is not magic. I didn't feel any fluctuations of magic. This is obviously a dead thing. Why can you interact with me and get so many responses? It's not magic"

Connor grinned unkindly, subverting an old-fashioned traditional concept of wizards is so pleasant, he seems to have found a new joy.
"Professor, do you still remember that I said that I wanted to discuss a topic about 0 and 1?" Connor pointed to the big head phone, "Look, the topic I talked about is here."

"What does this have to do with these two numbers?"

"Professor, do you know binary?"

Professor Victor's expression continued to be dazed, well, wizards don't learn binary in math classes, no, Hogwarts doesn't have math classes.

Although wizards also learn arithmetic, they don't study mathematics. Even Victor, who is the best in arithmetic in the school, teaches mathematics at a level much higher than that of high school students. Wizards really don't know much about Muggle academia.

"Just like our monetary system, binary is a number system based on 2, which was proposed by the German mathematician Leibniz hundreds of years ago." Talked for several minutes.

"...Oh, that's a digital computing system, right? Then?" Professor Victor silently listened, and secretly heaved a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she understood this, otherwise she would really lose face in front of the students.
Then he heard Connor say
"...now that you have a brief understanding of this, let's go into more detail about the fundamentals of computers, starting with a man named John von Neumann"

Another 10 minutes later.
"The emergence of large-scale integrated circuits has greatly promoted the development of personal computers. You see, there are tens of millions of circuit transistors on this small central processing unit, and they can perform calculations at a speed of hundreds of millions per second. High-speed computing, specifically manifested outside, has become what you call "non-magical" human-computer interaction..."

"..." Professor Victor pushed his glasses. He wanted to drink water tactically but found that there was no water in the glass. He wanted to interrupt Connor's "science" but was too embarrassed to speak. His mood was very delicate for a while.

"...So, this computer can be said to be built on the basis of binary 0 and 1, with infinite possibilities and endless possibilities, a miracle of human wisdom!"

Connor ended the popular science class with a sighing tone, and then looked at Professor Victor with bright eyes:
"Then professor, do you understand?"

"..." I understand you are a hammer...Professor Victor wanted to scold someone, but it didn't fit her personality, so she pushed her slipped glasses again, pretending to be indifferent and said:

"I... I probably understand... I didn't expect Muggles to make such a...magical machine. It seems that I was too prejudiced against Muggles before. I must admit that this machine...is a great invention comparable to magic scrolls..."

The magic scroll may not be qualified to compare with this, Connor smiled, pulled the keyboard and mouse in front of the professor, turned on the calculator that comes with the computer, pressed a button, and pressed Enter vigorously, then turned his head and said:
"Professor, look at this computer, just input a few data, no matter how complicated the calculation is, it will calculate the answer at once, what do you think of this function?"

"Huh? It's just a quick calculation ability. It's not a big deal. We wizards can also easily do this. For example, we can use our arithmetic divination, and we can even ignore the process to get c..."

Professor Victor's hand drinking water froze in mid-air, and a flash of inspiration passed away. She seemed to have grasped something, but couldn't figure it out, so she turned her head to look at the "culprit".

Sure enough, Connor smiled crookedly, and said, "Professor, have you noticed it too? Our arithmetic divination and computers have something in common...or, our arithmetic divination...doesn't it look like the [computer] that belongs to our wizards?" ?”

Professor Victor was so excited: "Connor, do you understand what you are talking about? This... this is not magic!"

Connor raised his hand and signaled the professor to calm down: "Professor Victor, it's too early to say anything, this is just my guess, we don't know what the final result will be..."

"...I just don't know...Professor, are you... interested in my subject?"

(End of this chapter)