Numbers are there to do numeric things, strings are our fundamental way of representing textual information.

数字是用来描述数值的，字符串是表现,文本信息的基本方式。

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You go to ABI Inform, which is one of the things that Yale subscribes to, on your laptop and it puts you right into the text of The Wall Street Journal.

BI/INFORM世界著名的商业经济管理期刊全文图像数据库,那是耶鲁所订阅的信息来源,它会在电脑上直接以文本形式显示,《华尔街日报》的内容

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