Awakening Elementary School System in University

Next, using the chain rule and his knowledge of Differential Geometry, he derived the constraints for velocity, acceleration, and jerk. He expressed them all using these decision variables, turning them into a series of highly-coupled, complex non-linear inequalities!

Seeing this, Fan Jianjun’s eyes had gone completely wide.

He felt as if his brain had been struck by lightning. Many of the sticking points that had long troubled him, problems he could never think through, were instantly illuminated the moment he saw Chen Lin’s entirely new mathematical modeling method!

’So... so it can be done like this!’

By the time Chen Lin finished writing the final constraint, had fully constructed the entire problem into a large-scale nonlinear programming (NLP) model, and had laid out a clear approach for solving it efficiently with a sequential quadratic programming (SQP) algorithm...

Fan Jianjun was completely and utterly dumbfounded.

He stood there, motionless.

Finally, the tip of Chen Lin’s pen came to a halt.

He tidied up the three sheets of scratch paper, which were filled to the brim with writing, placed them gently on the desk, then stretched and let out a long sigh.

The entire process had taken thirty-six minutes.

"Alright." He turned his head and smiled at the somewhat dazed group behind him.

However, before he could say another word.

SWISH!

A figure flashed past. Fan Jianjun had darted forward, snatched the sheets of scratch paper from the desk, and retreated to the side, cradling them in his hands. He began to read them again greedily, word by word, poring over them meticulously from beginning to end.

He muttered to himself, his fingers tracing lines on the paper, completely lost in a state of near-frenzied obsession.

Tao Wei and Luo Qin watched their company’s tech guru lose his composure like this, and for a moment, they were at a loss for words.

Chen Lin was a bit stunned too. He looked at Fan Jianjun and asked uncertainly, "Engineer Fan, what’s wrong? Is there a problem with what I wrote?"

Fan Jianjun didn’t answer him.

He simply read through the three pages again, from start to finish, with painstaking care.

When he finished reading the very last word, he slowly raised his head. In his bloodshot eyes, a result of long hours in front of a computer, a glistening sheen of moisture had actually... actually begun to form.

His eyes had turned red.

"Engineer Fan?" Chen Lin was genuinely starting to panic now. ’What’s going on?’

Tao Wei also sensed that something was wrong. He quickly stepped forward and clapped his old partner on the shoulder. "Old Fan, what are you..."

"I..."

Fan Jianjun opened his mouth, his Adam’s apple bobbed violently, and his voice carried an irrepressible, choked-up sound.

"I’m just... too excited..."

He raised a hand and roughly wiped his eyes with the back of his calloused hand. His red eyes stared intently at Chen Lin, his tone filled with an indescribable mix of excitement and emotion.

"President Chen, do you have any idea? Do you know how many years we tech guys have been fighting just to get our country’s own industrial software to catch up to the level of those foreign giants?"

"Do you know how many all-nighters we’ve pulled, how much effort we’ve poured in... Only for them to put up a technical barrier that shuts us out completely!"

"Today..."

He brandished the sheets of scratch paper in his hand, his voice, raised an octave with excitement, echoing throughout the entire office.

"Finally, we can see hope!"

Seeing that Engineer Fan was crying tears of excitement, Chen Lin secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

For him, the standard for judging a problem’s difficulty had always been very singular, one might even call it simple and crude—it was based on how long it took him to write out the solution.

Judged by that metric, the problem Era of Creation was facing was indeed quite difficult.

Seeing that Fan Jianjun was still overwhelmed with emotion and wouldn’t be calming down anytime soon, Tao Wei, the smooth and savvy vice president, immediately stepped in to smooth things over.

He took a step forward, patting Old Fan’s shoulder in a half-soothing, half-joking manner. "Old Fan, get a hold of yourself, get a hold of yourself. Don’t work yourself into a frenzy."

Then, he turned to Chen Lin with a slightly apologetic smile. "President Chen, please don’t mind him. Our Old Fan is just a tech fanatic. He’s a straightforward person, he means no harm."

"I understand, I understand." Chen Lin smiled and waved his hand, indicating that he didn’t mind at all.

Next, Tao Wei took out his phone, walked over to the office window, and made a call.

He was clearly reporting the situation to the higher-ups at the group headquarters. Although his voice was low, Chen Lin could still vaguely make out phrases like "completely feasible," "unconventional thinking," and "far exceeds expectations."

The entire call lasted less than five minutes. It was crisp and decisive.

When Tao Wei hung up and walked back to the desk, his expression was filled with undisguised admiration and decisiveness.

"President Chen," he said to Chen Lin with a sincere tone, "your solution has passed our internal preliminary assessment. There are no problems at all! We, Era of Creation, are willing to pay a service fee of one million yuan for this technical solution."

The moment his voice fell, Huang Yiyi, who was standing to the side, pushed a formal, pre-drafted technical service contract to the center of the table as if by magic.

Seeing this, Tao Wei couldn’t help but look at the young female assistant with renewed appreciation, inwardly praising her professionalism.

He picked up a pen, glanced over the contract’s details, and directly signed his name in the space for Party A’s representative. He then signaled for Luo Qin to immediately contact the group’s finance department and expedite the payment.

The entire process was as smooth as flowing water, without a hint of hesitation.

In less than ten minutes, Huang Yiyi glanced down, then looked up and reported to Chen Lin in a steady but joy-filled tone, "President Chen, the company account has received the technical service fee transfer from Era Group. One million yuan, exactly."

One million!

Chen Lin’s mood instantly became incredibly pleasant.

He leaned back in the comfortable ergonomic chair, unable to help but sigh inwardly: ’Running a company is so much more satisfying than the small-time consulting I used to do!’

In truth, Chen Lin knew perfectly well that for a company of Era of Creation’s scale, the true value of the algorithm optimization framework he had provided was far, far more than just one million yuan.

But he had only asked for this price for two reasons. First, this was the number he had quoted to Tao Wei through Sun Yu earlier. Business is built on integrity; you can’t go back on your word.

Second, after Sun Yu’s preliminary research and Fan Jianjun’s explanation just now, he also understood that a top-level algorithm framework alone wasn’t enough.

Between theory and reality, there was a long chasm that needed to be filled with the code and sweat of countless engineers.

A series of tedious software engineering challenges still lay ahead, which Era of Creation would have to overcome on its own to truly achieve a breakthrough in high-end domestic industrial software.

In today’s complex environment and context, Chen Lin was more than happy to use his abilities to help domestic companies solve some of these so-called "bottleneck" problems in advanced technology.

As a leading enterprise in the domestic CNC machine tool industry, if Era of Creation achieved a breakthrough with its own technology in the future, having Tao Wei and his team spread the word within the industry would create an advertising effect probably more potent than spending millions on ads.

’This deal is a guaranteed win.’

With the business concluded, Tao Wei and his group immediately rose to leave.

It was clear they were burning with impatience, wishing they could sprout wings and fly back to Wancheng, assemble their team overnight, and start tackling the technical challenges using the new framework Chen Lin had provided.

Chen Lin wanted to play the part of a gracious host and see them off at the airport, but Tao Wei politely declined with a smile.

"President Chen, please, don’t stand on ceremony with us!" Tao Wei shook Chen Lin’s hand firmly, his attitude resolute. "First you ran to the airport to pick us up, then you helped us solve such a complex problem. You must be exhausted. You absolutely have to get some rest! We can just grab a cab. Please, don’t trouble yourself!"

Hearing this, Chen Lin didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

But he could only go along with them, walking the three of them to the gate of Yannan University.