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你能解开吗?来自数学界“莫扎特”的神奇旋律Can you solve it? A magical melody from the Mozart of math

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陶哲轩 摄影:马西米利亚诺·米诺克里,EDICIONES EL PAÍS S.L.UTerence Tao Photograph: Massimiliano Minocri, EDICIONES EL PAÍS S.L.U

陶哲轩谜题时间。今天的谜题由陶哲轩提出,他或许是世界上最著名的数学家。

Terence Tao teaser time Today’s puzzle is set by Terence Tao, who may be the world’s most famous mathematician.

现年51岁的陶哲轩自十岁起便成为全球瞩目的焦点,当时他成为了国际数学奥林匹克竞赛中最年轻的参赛者,这一纪录至今仍由他保持。在过去的三十年里,他一直担任加州大学洛杉矶分校的教授,在那里他获得了无数奖项,他的一位同事曾有名言:“特里就像莫扎特:数学知识从他身上自然流淌而出。”

Tao, aged 51, has been a global phenomenon since the age of ten, when he became the youngest competitor at the International Maths Olympiad, a record he still holds. For the last three decades he has been a professor at UCLA, where he has been garlanded with prizes, and where one of his colleagues famously said: “Terry is like Mozart: mathematics just flows out of him.”

普通植物每天产出一枚硬币,母本植物每天产出一枚硬币和两颗种子。(种子会在次日长成普通植物。)

a regular plant produces a single coin per day a mother plant produces a single coin and two seeds per day. (A seed will grow into a regular plant the following day.)

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