The lateral thinking skills of our ancestors were quite astonishing, "says Chang. He refers to the classical tale" Han-hsin Musters Soldiers "and the Chinese remainder theorem which can be derived from it, which easily solves problems of algebraic simultaneous equations.
「我們老祖宗水平思考的智慧叫人嘆服」，大學念建築的張世宗舉出「韓信點兵」這則掌故，說它導出的「中國剩餘定理」，可以輕易解開「未知數比方程式多」的難題。