The result-- or one or more arguments or parameters that result of which is-- that will influence its behavior.

可能是一个或多个参数,因为不同的参数会影响它的输出。

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It means anybody using that little function get float doesn't have to worry about what's inside of it. So for example, I decide I want to change the message I print out, I don't have to change the function, I just pass in a different parameter.

这代表着用这个方法去获得浮点数,的任何人都不用担心具体的实现了,例如，如果我想改变下,显示的信息的话，我不必去改变方法，我传个不同的参数就可以了。

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It's a geometric factor that's unique for each crystal structure.

特有的几何参数,对不同晶型而言。

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Indeed, swap in your printout there is just defined as now taking *a and *b and then it also uses the * later, but we'll come back to what the different uses of the * means, but for now I claim conceptually it just means swap has access to the locations of its parameters.

的确，在打印资料中的swap被定义为,携带*a和*b，之后它也是带*号的，但是我们将说明*的不同用法，现在，我断言swap可以,使用参数的地址。

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