In a compiled language, you have an intermediate step, in which you take the source code, it runs through what's called a checker or a compiler or both, and it creates what's called object code.

而在编译语言里，你就会经过一个中间的步骤，在这种语言里输入源码后，先经过过滤器,或者编译器检查后，它会创建一个叫做目标代码的东西。

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OK. All right, let me show you one other tool that I want to use. Which is, I've written that piece of code, I ought to check it. Well, I could just run it, but another useful thing to do is, I'm, especially as I want to debug these things, is to simulate that code.

好，那么，让我给大家讲下,我想用的另外一个工具吧,也就是，我已经写好了这一块代码，我应该去检查检查,那么我可以去运行它,但是特别是当我想要调试代码的时候。

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It says check to see if I'm in that base case.

这段代码是检查目前是否是最基本的情况。

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So now, in this case, this code is going to, when we get here, check, and if you haven't seen that strange thing there, that exclamation point in bang computer-ese called a bang, it says x if ANS star ANS is not equal to x, all right?

那么现在，在这个例子中，当我们执行到这里，代码会去检查,如果你没有看到过这个奇怪的东西,这个感叹号在计算机学中被叫做,代码的意思是如果ANS的平方不等于？

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Well, now I go through code very much like what I did for max val in the first place. I check whether it's 0, et cetera, et cetera.

现在我会捋一遍代码,就像我之前捋maxval函数一样,我会检查它是不是0等等等等。

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