What is a computer good for?

什么是计算机好？

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The above component sections, seen in a calculator, form the basic for the discussion, "what is a computer".

在计算器上看到的上述几个组成部分，构成了“什么是计算机”这一论述的基本部分。

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Gleick: That makes sense as long as this metaphor does not diminish our sense of what the universe is but expands our sense of what a computer is.

格莱克：只要这个隐喻没有削弱我们对于宇宙的认知，反而扩展了我们对于计算机的认识，那它就是有意义的。

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You might remember vaguely logarithms from high school math and such but what this suggests for us , the computer scientists, is that this is certainly a smarter, a faster algorithm.

你可能还会依稀记得,高中数学里的对数,这就给了我们这些计算机科学家们，一些启示,即，这种算法更智能，更迅速。

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So the heap is a chunk of memory in a computer's RAM that's conceptually allocated to what's called dynamic memory allocation.

堆是在计算机RAM中的一块内存,它可以进行,动态内存分配。

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When we talk about space, what we usually refer to is, how much computer memory does it take to complete a computation of a particular size?

我们经常指的是，当我们计算，一个特定大小的问题的时候,要占用计算机的多少内存？

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