Based on the lessons we've been telling if I say *, you know what I have a computer.

基于我们讲过的课程，如果我指明，我有一台计算机。

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And yet if a computer can only count up to 2 billion or maybe 4 billion, I mean, what do you then do?

如果一台计算机只能够支持20亿,或者40亿，那我们该怎么办？

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But a point I'm trying to make is, it sounds like anymore computers have gotten so blazingly fast, why should you worry about it?

但是这里我要讲的一点是，在任何一台计算机,都能这么快的运算的情况下，我们还管效率这个问题干嘛呢？

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You might think that what a computer, what a chess-playing computer does is just this: it calculates every possible branch, every possible game from here on out.

你可能认为,一台电脑,或一台下棋电脑所做的工作就是这样,计算出所有可能的下法,以及与之对应的各种可能的棋局

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If you have a computer that plays chess and you want to explain how the computer plays chess, it's impossible to do so without talking about the programs and mechanisms inside the computer.

如果你有一台能下国际象棋的计算机,你想要解释计算机是如何下国际象棋的，如果你不谈程序以及计算机的内部结构,那你就不能对它如何下国际象棋,给出解释。

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But let's see if a computer could also do it.

我们来看看，一台计算机是不是也会这么做。

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But at the end of the day, and here's why we just went with binary and not decimal years ago, when you have one implement a computer with a physical device, it's actually really easy to represent the notion of on or off.

但是最终，之前我们采用二进制,而不是十进制，主要是因为当我们用一台实体机器运行计算机时，这实际上很容易用开或者关的概念来表示。

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