But we know already from week zero that computers ultimately represent all information with numbers, and if they want to represent letters inside memory, well what do they do or what do they use?

但是自从上周我们已经知道,计算机最终是用数字来表示所有的,信息，如果它们要描绘,在内存中的字母，它们该怎么做，用什么方式呢？

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ArgV You can think of this variable Arg V as literally an array a sequence of chunks of memory that literally are back to back to back in memory, and when you say bracket zero, by convention, you are referring to the variables stored here.

你可以想象这个变量,按顺序排列的一块块内存,依次地在内存中紧邻着的，当你指明，按照惯例，涉及,存储的变量在这里。

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Only the operating system has controlling of byte zero NULL in the computer's RAM and so if a function ever returns null, aka zero, well, something must have gone wrong because that can't possibly belong to me that memory because by human convention zero is owned by the operating system; not by a program I wrote.

只用操作系统在内存中能够控制,字节0，并且如果一个函数返回，或者说0，好的，可能出错了,因为那可能是不属于我的内存,因为惯例上，0是由操作系统拥有的,而不是由我的程序拥有的。

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