They say the United Nations complex humanitarian operation in this conflict-ridden province cannot function efficiently without their help.

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to do sqrt, or square root-- no, I'm going to square root use sqrt, that's the name I'm using here-- square root a hundred different places in some piece of code. Without function, I'd have to copy that piece of code everywhere.

让我做一下准备,想象一下我要调用sqrt或者-,不，我会调用sqrt函数,这是我在这里用的名字，我得把这段代码到处复制。

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If you knew only the third derivative of the function, you can have something quadratic in t without changing the outcome.

如果方程里有三阶导数,你就可以引入一个二次项,但是结果却不会变

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Or just have the good intentions without the effort that's necessary to bring about a positive exponential function.

还是只有好的意图但不付出,必要的努力发挥正面指数函数的作用。

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