Chapter 292: Unit Conversions, Diona is One Meter Fifty-Five!
Seeing Sakura’s reaction, Lin Ye couldn’t help but laugh.
However, after a while, Lin Ye frowned as he looked at the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls.
It seemed that the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls were struggling to understand the conversions of these lengths.
Even Shi was frowning as he laboriously looked at the black lines on the stone tablet.
Lin Ye rubbed his chin, thought for a moment, and then spoke to the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls. “First, go find some twigs. Find ones that are very thin and straight.”
Lin Ye looked at the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls, thinking that if they continued like this, they might not understand how to convert lengths until nightfall.
So, Lin Ye decided to have the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls find twigs. He believed that seeing the difference between meters and decimeters directly would help them understand faster.
Upon hearing Lin Ye’s words, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls all shifted their gazes from the stone tablet.
After a moment of reaction, they all scattered and ran off to find twigs.
Having moved around the tribe’s surroundings every day, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls had an idea where to find the twigs Lin Ye described.
So, it didn’t take long for the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls to return, each holding a twig.
Naturally, the Winged Girls, flying, were much faster than the Beast-eared Girls walking on two legs.
Thus, when the first Winged Girls returned, none of the Beast-eared Girls had come back yet.
When the first Winged Girl returned, Lin Ye had her take a small knife and, according to the black lines on the stone tablet, cut a twig of exactly the same length.
After cutting out the meter, decimeter, and centimeter lengths, he handed it over to the next Winged Girl.
The already cut twigs could also serve as a reference.
Thus, with great speed, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls were all standing in front of Lin Ye, holding their cut twigs and looking at him with confusion.
Lin Ye saw that all the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls had finished.
He placed the stone tablet on the ground and repeated to them, “Ten decimeters joined together are exactly as long as one meter.”
After saying this, Lin Ye raised his head, beckoned to the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls, and said, “Bring me ten decimeters’ worth of twigs.”
Hearing Lin Ye’s words, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls immediately handed over the twigs they were holding.
Lin Ye took twigs from the ten closest Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls, and then took a one-meter-long twig.
Then, after placing them all on the ground, he arranged them and said to the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls, “This is one meter, and this is one decimeter.”
Holding the two twigs, one long and one short, he placed them on the ground and said to the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls.
“Ten one-decimeter lengths joined together are exactly equal to one meter.”
As he spoke, Lin Ye joined the ten small decimeter-long twigs one by one, and then placed the twig representing one meter next to the ten joined decimeters.
The Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls watched Lin Ye’s actions.
After seeing the one-meter-long twig placed next to the ten decimeters.
They were exactly the same length.
At this moment, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls were all stunned.
Then they all understood what Lin Ye had just said. “So that’s how it is!”
Shi stood to the side, and seeing the twigs on the ground, he couldn’t help but exclaim.
The other Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls also looked at the twigs on the ground, a look of sudden realization on their faces.
Lin Ye, seeing their expressions, breathed a sigh of relief.
It seemed that the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls had understood this simple conversion.
Then Lin Ye spoke to the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls, “And there are centimeters. Ten centimeters equal one decimeter.”
Lin Ye decided to strike while the iron was hot and continue instilling knowledge into the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls.
After speaking, Lin Ye extended his hand to the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls again.
This time, there was no need for words.
The Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls directly placed the small twigs representing centimeters into Lin Ye’s hand.
After receiving the one-centimeter-long twigs, Lin Ye arranged ten of them on the ground.
Then he took out a one-decimeter-long twig and placed it next to them.
The Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls had already found the pattern, and as Lin Ye was arranging them, they already understood what was going on.
Lin Ye looked at the expressions of the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls and knew that they had understood this simple conversion.
However, Lin Ye then asked them a question. “One meter equals ten decimeters, and one decimeter equals ten centimeters, so how many centimeters are in one meter?” As soon as Lin Ye asked this question, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls were all stumped.
Sakura, Diona, Setsuna, and Ling, the four little girls, already felt their brains heating up.
Sweat had already begun to form on their foreheads.
The other Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls had similar reactions.
This was already the simplest addition and subtraction.
But the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls had no concept of it.
So they all started counting one by one.
Watching the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls, Lin Ye thought that in the future, he would still have to teach them arithmetic.
He would even have to make them memorize the multiplication table.
Otherwise, the things they needed to do would become increasingly complex in the future.
If the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls couldn’t help, and Lin Ye had to do everything himself, progress would be very slow.
Lin Ye watched as the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls thought for a long time but couldn’t come up with an answer, so he said to them, “One decimeter is ten centimeters, and ten decimeters are one meter, which means ten times ten centimeters equals one meter.” “So, what is ten times ten centimeters?”
Lin Ye understood that the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls were not stupid, but they had never learned these things before.
They couldn’t figure out such a simple problem now simply because they didn’t even have a direction to think in.
And Lin Ye’s words happened to guide them in that direction.
So, after Lin Ye finished speaking, Shi quickly responded.
“Ten times ten centimeters is one hundred centimeters. One meter equals one hundred centimeters!” Shi’s voice shifted from doubt to firmness, and finally to confident, loud declaration of the answer.
Upon hearing Shi’s words, all the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls’ eyes lit up.
Then they turned to look at Shi.
Lin Ye also smiled and nodded in approval at Shi.
After Shi’s explanation, the other Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls all understood.
The Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls looked at Shi, then turned to look at the twigs on the ground.
After performing a mental calculation.
All the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls broke into happy smiles.
Lin Ye nodded with satisfaction as he saw their expressions.
Once they understood this, with frequent use in the future, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls would quickly master all the units of distance.
As it happened, night was also about to fall.
After returning the twigs representing distance to a few Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls,
Lin Ye led the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls (Wang Nuo Zhao) who were joyfully celebrating their newfound understanding of distance towards the wooden house.
Distance was only one aspect of the measurement system.
There were still many things to teach the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls.
Moreover, if the tribe was to continue to develop in a good direction,
They would definitely need to learn to read and write in the future.
However, these things couldn’t be attended to right now.
They would focus on surviving this winter before thinking about how to develop the tribe.
Lin Ye didn’t know how cold the winter here was.
He also didn’t know how long it would last.
However, based on the amount of food the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls had stored,
It should be similar to other seasons.
Upon returning to the wooden house, the Beast-eared Girls and Winged Girls carefully placed the twigs in their hands by their bedside.
Then, they all lay down on their beds, excitedly chatting.
Sakura made Diona lie straight on the bed, and then began to measure Diona’s height with twigs.
After placing several twigs on Diona’s body,
Sakura’s excited voice rang out.
“Diona, you are one meter, five decimeters, and five centimeters tall!”
