The team figures it out
Hang on...
Are you serious?
The village team doesn't figure it out
Yeah.
We're adapting the miniature rocket.
Dynamite
Wirelessly controlled fins
Fuel
Xeno's jet engine
Superalloy
It took Xeno-sensei and me a lot of time to put together our first rocket.
Fire!
Go!
And we're using that power of science to go forth into the future!
Suez Canal opened and broken through!
The universe is written in the language of mathematics.
So said Galileo Galilei.
We're about to acquire the common language of the universe—
the knowledge of humanity!
Er, that sounds cool and all, but...
I have no idea what you're talking about.
I controlled the trajectory of that rocket manually.
But for a rocket to navigate the vastness of space,
we're going to need continuous perfect trajectory calculations.
Calculations?
Can't we use Senku-chan's insane math skills?
All the calculations I do are just guesstimates based on approximate values.
That won't cut it for a rocket.
Mess up the trajectory calculation by mere decimals,
and the errors will compound and get everyone on board killed.
Oh, right.
If the angle's even the slightest bit off,
after thousands upon thousands of kilometers,
you'll end up in the middle of nowhere.
Space is scary.
For their part, NASA used fifteen digits of pi.
Crazy.
Which means we'll be calculating
like freaks for the whole time the rocket's in the air.
To that end, we're headed to India.
India has amazing math education.
They memorize the multiplication table up to two by two digits.
For real? I'd drop out right off the bat.
And I want that mathematical skill!
Greed is good.
Which is why the Nanami Conglomerate built a university to cultivate talent.
Nanami Conglomerate was all over the place, wasn't it?
We'll go to where the university was
and wake up the hundreds of capable students and professors of computation.
In fact, when the Apollo program sent humans to the moon for the first time,
the computers were human.
If we're lucky, Sai might be there.
Sai?
It's a common Indian name.
A genius mathematician with the cognitive power of a million people.
The Universe Is Written in the Language of Mathematics
October 1, 5750.
The New Perseus Arrives in India.
Cumin
Cumin seeds acquired.
C a r d a m o m
Cardamom seeds acquired.
Coriander
Coriander seeds acquired.
Turmeric acquired.
I knew it!
I had a feeling you'd make some as soon as we got to India.
To think we'd get to have curry so soon after we opened up the Suez.
Saving a year is a tasty win.
And curry is tasty, too.
One more year,
and I would have been older than Ruri-nee, since she's still petrified.
I'm a teeny bit worried about Ruri and the others.
I hope they won't have broken apart or anything in all the time that's passed.
Th-That's right!
If they're broken anywhere,
they'll get weathered, and we won't be able to put them back together!
We don't need to worry about that at all.
As the priestess, Ruri-nee would have
made sure everyone took defensive postures.
There's nothing to fear.
As far apart as we are, we're still siblings.
I just know.
Hell yeah!
We don't need to worry about Ruri.
I know it, too!
Chrome, I think you have a different reason for understanding Ruri-nee.
Makes sense.
If you know someone well,
you'll naturally know where their statue will be, too.
You can always trust a sailor's instincts.
When that wretched first petrification beam hit thousands of years ago...
it was roughly 9:30 in the morning in India,
just moments before classes began.
In his spare time, Sai was always on his laptop.
Somewhere with good signal and where he could be alone.
Which means...
Sai was on the school rooftop when he was petrified!
You sure know this Sai guy well.
We don't know where that school building was, though.
That won't be a problem.
All we need is the target's starting position,
the locations of the other statues...
And the geography of the area, and...
Calculating the destination is a piece of cake!
What the heck?
We use the shear strength of the soil layers
and the Fellenius method to perform factor of safety calculations!
I know the original map, so of course I can see how the land slid!
Wow.
Let two science users tag-team, and their crypticness doubles, too.
That'll do.
Is that him?
The man with the cognitive power of a million people, Sai?
He looks like... he's half-Indian, half-Japanese?
He's handsome as hell.
What's he like?
Genius academics tend to be pretty unapproachable for real.
Hmph Hmph
Mumble Mumble
What happened?
Did you guys save me?
Thank you!
Thank goodness he has normal communication skills.
Thank you!
Thank you so much!
Peegyaah!
Why would you run off the moment you see me?
How rude of you!
Capture him!
Can I go ahead and catch him?
Peegyaah!
You're too fast!
No! No! No!
What's going on?
I finally fled to India!
I'm never going back to the Nanami Conglomerate!
And never to your place!
This man's name is Nanami Sai.
Now, rise.
You and your mind of a million are joining us!
We're still siblings.
I just know.
You sure know this Sai guy well.
This guy's my younger brother!
Ryusui!
What?!
The mind worth a million men, Sai.
And he turned out to be Ryusui's brother.
Why didn't you tell us he was your big brother?
Hm? What use do you have for such info?
This man, Nanami Sai, is splendidly capable.
So I want him. That's all there is to it.
Am I right?
No, seriously, I'm not a genius or anything!
Ryusui's just been pushing that story forever!
That's hilarious.
So it's not true that you're a freak genius?
Yeah, that's wrong.
That's super funny!
We can just be normal friends, then.
Nice to meet you!
R-Really? You're okay with that?
Of course not.
You aren't fooling me.
We're brothers, after all.
Sai, you've had a gift since you were four.
Twenty-nine quintillion five hundred ninety-nine quadrillion
eight hundred twenty trillion three hundred seventy-four billion
four hundred two million two hundred
forty-four thousand nine hundred fifty-three.
I'm sorry! I thought that was multiplication.
Sir!
Sai-sama is big news!
He's fantastic, sir!
Wanth!
That mental arithmetic isn't worth anything!
A computer can do that instantly!
Anyone can do ten-digit multiplication if they spend as much time as I did.
Y-You sure about that?
It would take a while if I wanted to do it accurately.
No matter what you think of yourself,
you aren't hiding your numerical prowess from anyone.
The Nanami Conglomerate—nay, I—want it, and you know it!
I'm sure you do.
Young Sai already has a grasp of linear algebra, sets, and topology.
Focus all his time on mathematics.
We'll raise him to be the Nanami Conglomerate's actuarial scientist.
Sai-sama vanished?!
Where is he?
Intro to Programming
Make a falling block game
Master's orders.
Your study time will be doubled as of today.
And your use of the computer will be restricted to studying.
Yes, sir.
Sai.
What are you talking about?
Just do all of it.
Work on your studies.
Master mathematics and become an actuarial scientist.
Do enough to get them off your back.
On top of that, you'll play and make games.
If you want it, you take it!
Everything you want!
Even the Nanami Conglomerate itself!
Th-There's no way I could do that.
I just want to work on the game programming that I love so much.
Sai, I want your abilities.
We're making a race track together.
Calculate the optimal racing line!
No way.
Now we're making a sail together!
Using computational fluid dynamics!
No!
Sai!
Please!
Sai!
I'm not...
Sai!
... a mathematician!
I'm a programmer!
The Nanami Conglomerate and Ryusui kept forcing me to work.
I escaped all the way to a university in India.
I just want to code!
This world's nothing but rocks.
How long will it take to make a decent computer?
Making semiconductors is gonna suck.
More like, there's no way we're getting there at present.
It'll take at least five years, or maybe ten...
I told you!
Why did you wake me up?
We don't even have calculators in this world.
What even is there for a programmer to do?
He may say that, but you can always count on him when push comes to shove.
It doesn't sound like he's a math specialist.
I feel bad for him.
And he said he isn't that fast at calculating.
And the slightest mistake can get everyone killed, right?
Either way, we'll need more than just Sai to do the trajectory calculations.
Unlike the Apollo program, we have no idea what Why-Man's going to do.
We need to react to changing circumstances super fast 24 hours a day.
Calculating by hand would be a tightrope walk,
no matter how many more people we had.
Five to ten years until PCs become a thing...
What am I supposed to do in the meantime?
I can't even code.
I'm going to be languishing for the next five, ten years.
No...
It's not that I can't program.
All I can do is write programs.
That's odd.
No man could possibly resist the scent of curry.
That's not true.
I'm worried, though.
Sai-chan...
What is all this?
It's machine code.
The most primitive programming language,
for inputting directly into the computer.
Hey, no! Don't look!
What do you mean, "don't look"?
How is anyone supposed to not look?
I mean, there are no computers in this world right now,
so all I can do is write it down.
None of us can read it.
Is this even a program?
All these numbers...
are Dragon Quest.
In other words, no matter how primitive the machine,
you can make an entire universe inside a computer. Correct, Sai?
Yeah. I can.
Any program imaginable.
Change of plans, then.
Sai, with your elite skills, we have a shot on even the most basic machines.
In other words, if we can make a Nintendo, we can fly the rocket.
Humanity's singularity...
The climax of all scientific crafts.
We're making a computer in the stone world!
Dawn of the Computer
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