Connor's Hogwarts

"Connor, what mysterious thing do you want to show me..."

Professor Victor took Connor back to the office, and those 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 are you asking this? You know I have no interest in the Muggle world. You should ask that stupid girl Caridi about this kind of thing... Ahem, you should ask Bubba Professor Ji is right..."

Caredib Badge is the professor of Muggle Studies at Hogwarts. He is a Hufflepuff who comes from a traditional wizarding family, but is very interested in Muggles. He often writes for Muggles and Muggles in newspapers and magazines. The born wizard speaks out.

Because Divination, Muggle Studies and Arithmancy are elective courses taught at the same time, and Professor Victor has always been dissatisfied with the school's juxtaposition of Arithmancy and the other two useless courses, these professors The relationship 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 feel that Professor Bubbaji's understanding of the Muggle world may not be as deep as mine..."

"Ha, I believe you. That Bubbaji guy is only half a bucket of water..." Professor Victor seemed to be in a good mood, "Okay, that's the end of the small talk. Connor should explain your purpose of coming directly. As for the Muggles just now, Regarding the world’s problems, I haven’t been to the Muggle world for more than ten years. If you want to ask me about Muggle things, I will definitely not be able to answer you..."

"Okay, actually, I mainly want you to see this..." Connor reached into his arms and took out... a large head-mounted monitor, a host, a keyboard and a mouse...

"...Connor..." Professor Victor hesitated, "This... is another new Muggle machine."

"Yes, they call it... the personal computer..."

"puter" Victor said this unfamiliar word, and then looked at Connor who was still busy next to him, "Connor, what are you doing?"

Connor skillfully connected the computer, then took out a pre-drawn painting and took out the power strip from the painting.

"Of course it's powered. Professor, you should know that Muggles use electricity, right? Their machines all use electricity..."

Professor Victor pretended to be calm and said "Yeah", and after two or three seconds, he said again: "Of course I know, I have read this book. I will understand it after reading it once, Muggle inventions" Just like that, this thing doesn’t need to be learned as a course at all..."

"..." That book is the designated textbook for the Muggle Studies class. Connor has also read it. It is still novel to understand Muggles from the perspective of wizards, but Connor doesn't think that Professor Victor relies solely on one How much can you learn about the Muggle world from popular books...

Connor plugged in the power supply, and the stable current simulated by the magic painting allowed the computer to start successfully. As long as the magic painting was replenished with magic power, it would continuously and stably produce electricity. This magic version of the power supply was 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 used for? Is it used to blow air automatically or to heat food?"

It seems that our professor's impression of Muggle machines only stops at electric fans and induction cookers. Connor chuckled and did not explain. He gave up his seat and asked the professor to take a seat: "Professor Victor, do you want to come? Try it out...the latest version of Windows 3.1 system on this personal computer is rare even in the Muggle world..."

"..." Professor Victor didn't understand what Connor was talking about at all, but she didn't want to spoil the student's interest, so she had no choice but to sit down and said, "What's the use of it?"

"It's very simple. Professor, have you ever used Facebook? Just think of it as the Muggle version of Facebook. When you see this white arrow, you can control it without holding the mouse..."

Connor was instructing the professor to use the computer. Victor was fumbling with it while frowning and complaining. At one moment, he said that this operating system was too troublesome, and at another, he said that this broken machine didn't know how to work around it, until he finished a game of Minesweeper. After the game, Professor Victor fell silent.

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

Connor grinned unkindly. Subverting the three views of a rigid traditional wizard was so pleasurable. He seemed to have found a new kind of fun...

"Professor, do you remember that I said I wanted to explore a topic about 0 and 1..." Connor pointed to the big head machine, "Look, the topic I mentioned is right here."

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

"Professor, do you know binary?"

Professor Victor's expression continued to be blank. Well, wizards don't learn binary in mathematics... No, there are no mathematics classes at Hogwarts.

Although wizards also learn arithmetic, they do not study mathematics. Even Professor Victor, who is the best in arithmetic...but she really doesn't know much about Muggle academia.

"Just like our monetary system, binary is a base-2 notation system proposed by the German mathematician Leibniz hundreds of years ago..."

"Oh, it's just a number calculation system, right?" Professor Victor breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he understood this, otherwise he would have really lost face in front of the students...

Then he heard Connor say...

"Now that you have a simple understanding of this, let's talk about the basic principles of computers in detail. First, we have to start with the man named John von Neumann..."

10 minute 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 operations in units of hundreds of millions per second. Perform high-speed calculations at high speed, and the specific performance becomes what you call "non-magical" human-computer interaction."

""Professor Victor pushed up his glasses, drank water but found that there was no water in the glass. He wanted to interrupt Connor's talk but was too embarrassed to say it. His mood was very subtle for a moment.

"So, this computer can be said to be based on binary 0s and 1s, with infinite possibilities, a miracle of human wisdom."

Connor finished speaking in a chanting tone, and then looked at Professor Victor with bright eyes.

"Professor, do you understand?"

""I understand that you, Professor Victor, want to curse, but this is not in line with her personality, so she pushed up her glasses that were a little slippery again, and said calmly:

"I probably understand. I didn't expect Muggles to make such a magical machine. It seems that I was too prejudiced against Muggles in the past. This machine is a great invention comparable to the magic scroll."

The magic scroll may not be comparable to this. Connor smiled, pulled the keyboard and mouse in front of the professor, opened the calculator that came with the computer, clicked a few random keys, pressed Enter hard, turned around and said:

"Professor, look at this computer. Just input a few data, no matter how complex the calculation is, it can calculate the answer in one go. What do you think of this function?"

"Well, this is just the ability to calculate quickly. It's nothing. We wizards can also do this easily. For example, using our arithmetic divination, we can even directly ignore the c in the process."

Professor Victor's drinking hand froze in the air, and a flash of inspiration flashed away. She seemed to have caught something, but she couldn't figure it out, so she looked at the "culprit".

Sure enough, Connor smiled crookedly and said, "Professor, have you also discovered the similarities between our arithmetic divination and computers? In other words, does our arithmetic divination belong to our wizards?"

Professor Victor stood up: "Connor, do you know what you are talking about? This is not magic?"

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

"I just don't know if Professor, you are interested in this topic of mine."